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#26 2014-03-18 23:17:09

karol
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Re: no man pages [SOLVED]

jedijimi wrote:

Now how do I thread this as solved lol

You should read the stickied topics in this forum section: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309


jedijimi wrote:

edit#2  The solve was running 'export MANPAGER=less'

Reboot your computer and see what happens.

Last edited by karol (2014-03-18 23:18:01)

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#27 2014-03-18 23:21:37

jedijimi
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Re: no man pages [SOLVED]

ok, so after i rebooted it didn't stick...


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#28 2014-03-18 23:23:47

karol
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Re: no man pages [SOLVED]

jedijimi wrote:

ok, so after i rebooted it didn't stick...

Exactly.
Now you have to find where did you write 'MANPAGER=most' and change it or install 'most'.
Start with your ~/.bashrc and other places where you keep your aliases etc, like other people suggested.

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#29 2014-03-18 23:26:05

jedijimi
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Re: no man pages [SOLVED]

I guess you set MANPAGER to most somewhere.


Yup thats what I did. It was in my '~/.bashrc' file. It was when I tried to get 'man pages' to color

Last edited by jedijimi (2014-03-18 23:28:02)


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#30 2014-03-18 23:30:17

Slithery
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Re: no man pages [SOLVED]

jedijimi wrote:

Yup thats what I did. It was in my '~/.bashrc' file. It was when I tried to get 'man pages' to color

And it would have worked as well if you had actually installed most smile


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#31 2014-03-18 23:38:27

karol
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Re: no man pages [SOLVED]

progandy wrote:
grep PAGER ~/.*rc ~/.*profile

I think

find ~ -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname ".*" \! -name ".bash_history" -exec grep MANPAGER '{}' +

would be better.

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#32 2014-03-18 23:40:10

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Re: no man pages [SOLVED]

That works for me...

rob@arch:~$ find ~ -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname ".*" \! -name ".bash_history" -exec grep MANPAGER '{}' +
/home/rob/.bashrc:export MANPAGER=most

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#33 2016-05-31 12:26:14

Trashlord
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Re: no man pages [SOLVED]

I had a similar problem, man kept exiting with status 255.

I had to reinstall the groff package, and that fixed it.

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#34 2016-05-31 13:50:46

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Re: no man pages [SOLVED]

Closing this old thread.


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