Although somewhat detached from the original bug description, I encountered a similar issue with git (1.9.1, 2.11.0) while using trusty on WSL. I received the following error message when running 'git help':
warning: failed to exec 'man': Is a directory fatal: no man viewer handled the request I'm not sure if it's a package misconfiguration or something else, but I was able to find a workaround by manually setting the path to the man executable: git config --global man.man.path /usr/bin/man -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528895 Title: git-core should depend on man-db To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git-core/+bug/528895/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
