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lman

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From: CZ

Registered: 2007-12-18

Posts: 255

questions about man pages

Hi,

There are two kinds of utilities for reading man-pages, man and man-db. But what's the difference??? The description for both of the packages is: A utility for reading man pages.
The other thing is, are man pages in archlinux so incomplete? or are there any extra packages i have to install?
For example:

$man man
No manual entry for man

I used man pages as my primary source of information, when programming in C in other distributions. But now i can't find anything in there, and i have to use firefox instead.

I have these packages installed:
local/man-pages 2.78-1 (base)
local/man 1.6f-2 (base)
local/gcc 4.2.3-1 (base-devel)
local/gcc-libs 4.2.3-3 (base)

Do I have to install anything else to get man-pages with C libraries?

EDIT: ok, I now know the difference between man and man-db, but wouldn't it be better if at least there were different descriptions for those packages?

Last edited by lman (2008-02-26 23:00:16)

aboutreefitty

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Registered: 2008-02-14

Posts: 5

Re: questions about man pages

If you just installed, I think if you need to update all your databases.

for x in `ls /etc/cron.daily`; do $x; done

Last edited by aboutreefitty (2008-02-27 00:28:32)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: questions about man pages

"man man" works. Check /etc/profile

# Man is much better than us at figuring this out
unset MANPATH

lman

Member

From: CZ

Registered: 2007-12-18

Posts: 255

Re: questions about man pages

"man man" works. Check /etc/profile

# Man is much better than us at figuring this out
unset MANPATH

Thank you very much. I just uncommented the export MANPATH = ....... line in /etc/profiles, and everything works OK.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,487

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Re: questions about man pages

You are better off adding any changes that you made to /etc/profile into /etc/profile.pacnew and then moving the pacnew file.  That way you get all the other changes that were made to it.

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