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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

[solved] Missing man pages?

There are several pieces of sotware installed on my computer that I know have man pages available, but they aren't on my system.  For example,

[max@pwn raw]$ man pacman
No manual entry for pacman
[max@pwn raw]$ man makepkg
No manual entry for makepkg
[max@pwn raw]$ man aircrack-ng
No manual entry for aircrack-ng

Why are they missing and what can I do to have them on my computer?

Last edited by synthead (2008-04-22 07:06:35)

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

Posts: 510

Re: [solved] Missing man pages?

Hello synthead,

The man pages for pacman and makepkg work fine here.  Do you have a $MANPATH set?  Mine is empty, and I'm pretty sure that's how it's supposed to be now.  You can also check if you have these files (for pacman):
/usr/share/man/man5/pacman.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/pacman.8.gz

Ciao

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: [solved] Missing man pages?

I have both of those files, and I don't have a $MANPATH set

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: [solved] Missing man pages?

Replace /etc/profile with the profile.pacnew that's likely sitting somewhere in your /etc directory.  Then log out (completely) and back in and manpages should work again.

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: [solved] Missing man pages?

Oh great!  I should pay more attention to the verbose output of pacman upgrades.  I updated my configs based on what I had and the pacnew stuff.  I'm going to restart to see how well the configs go.

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: [solved] Missing man pages?

Well by golly that did it.  Thanks!!

akurashy

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Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 75

Re: [solved] Missing man pages?

that didn't work for me... I'm getting

groff: troff: Signal 11

I backed it up just in case to /etc/profile.old
any suggestions?

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: [solved] Missing man pages?

Seriously some people need to learn there is a search function in the forum. There have been at least 10 threads in the forum, 1000 questions in the IRC and some mailing list emails about this.

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kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: [solved] Missing man pages?

akurashy re-install groff pacman -S groff

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akurashy

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Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 75

Re: [solved] Missing man pages?

@kishd: thanks that worked out