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Package: man
Severity: normal
I have read man pages: man mandb apropos manpath ..
On my system ~.manpath is not istalled and looking at istalled files
of the respective packages it does not show installation of this
file. I do not know if /etc/manpath should take care og this.
I have run mandb with normal results. I have also tried to copy
/etc/manpath.conf to ~/.manpath. Apropos still outputs:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apropos mandb
mandb: nothing appropriate
You possibly know the answer. Looking forward to your reply.
wkr
Arnfinn Ringvold
Kvavik
N-4580 Lyngdal
Norway
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:47:06PM +0100, Arnfinn Ringvold wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 14:36 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > It doesn't look like you're using Debian's apropos command at all; I
> > don't know where yours came from. apropos in man-db has supported
> > --debug ever since I started maintaining it in 2001. Try 'which apropos'
> > and 'apropos --version'; also please show me the output of 'dpkg -l
> > man-db'.
>
> Hi Colin,
> I did a netinstall of Debian testing on this machine on des 7 2006. On
> my laptop I have had debian since 1999.
> Here is the output you requested.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which apropos
> /usr/local/bin/apropos
[...]
> I see you got me here, you reminded me that I have a local installation
> of man2html on the system stemming from a project trying to port dwww to
> a rpm system.
OK, this is the fault of that installation, then. Note that the Debian
man2html package doesn't have this problem.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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