I recently went to look something up and found my dpkg man pages had gone missing. A brief search found them under /usr/share/man/.
I have dpkg 1.4.1.18.99.slink.0 which I got from deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main There are other packages I've obtained from unofficial sites that have deposited their man pages under the /usr/share/man/ tree. I assume this is because they were "converted" from potato to slink, and that man pages in potato have moved from /usr/man/ to /usr/share/man/. What I need to know is: is there a "proper" way to tell man to look for man pages in /usr/share/man/ _in addition_ to the places it normally looks? My RTFM-ing would seem to indicate that /etc/manpath.config is the proper place. The MANDATORY_MANPATH mapping is obvious, but I'm concerned about the MANPATH_MAP mapping. There are no many-to-one mappings in the current file. Is it proper to have both the following lines? MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin /usr/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin /usr/share/man And what to do about /var/catman/ ? Thanks, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^