[SOLVED] man uses most for the first time

RandomTroll · 01-10-2019, 09:22 PM

For the first time today, man failed, complaining that it couldn't run most. I had never installed most. Did man change?

ondoho · 01-11-2019, 12:09 AM

what distro?

PS & OT:
thread title reminded me of https://www.sudosatirical.com/

pan64 · 01-11-2019, 12:44 AM

probably you only need to set the env var PAGER (or MANPAGER).

syg00 · 01-11-2019, 01:11 AM

What, read the man page .... ?????

RandomTroll · 01-11-2019, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

what distro?

Slackware, as my profile reveals

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Originally Posted by pan64

probably you only need to set the env var PAGER (or MANPAGER).

Yes. The new man-db package sets MANPAGER to most. I never knew about this.

pan64 · 01-11-2019, 01:23 AM

it is offtopic, but see man page, most existed in May, 1999.
(But if it was set to most a dependency is missing somewhere....)

RandomTroll · 01-11-2019, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by pan64

it is offtopic, but see man page, most existed in May, 1999.

I don't understand you. man's man page doesn't specify that it needs most.

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Originally Posted by pan64

(But if it was set to most a dependency is missing somewhere....)

It's not a dependency the same as a library's: ldd won't turn it up. mandb.(c)sh sets an environment variable.

pan64 · 01-12-2019, 03:42 AM

yes, you are right, it is a different kind of dependency. But it is still a dependency.