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gil390

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Registered: 2009-06-01

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] makewhatis

hi,

I'am using archlinux on my eeepc: Linux eeepc 2.6.29-ARCH, and i would like to find makewhatis command but i don't find it.
Could you help me ?

thanks
gil

Last edited by gil390 (2009-06-01 11:34:38)

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

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Re: [SOLVED] makewhatis

hi gil,

welcome to arch.

i don't know makewhatis, but i do see that whatis is owned by the package man-db. the command mandb has an option -c (--create) to make a new database, is that what you're looking for?

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gil390

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Registered: 2009-06-01

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Re: [SOLVED] makewhatis

hi litemotiv,

thank you to help me. how do you do to know which command is owned by a package ?
i would like to use apropos command which is not well configured on my computer.

i would like to use makewhatis to build apropos database but it seems that this command is not installed on my computer ?!

gil390

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Registered: 2009-06-01

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Re: [SOLVED] makewhatis

man-db 2.5.5-1 is installed but if i list file content (pacman -Ql man-db) there is no makewhatis ???

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

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Re: [SOLVED] makewhatis

how do you do to know which command is owned by a package ?

Simply install pkgtools, read the instructions displayed right after the install and you'll see :-)

bernarcher

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Registered: 2009-02-17

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Re: [SOLVED] makewhatis

makewhatis appears to be deprecated. Use catman instead. It is in the man-db package.

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gil390

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Registered: 2009-06-01

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Re: [SOLVED] makewhatis

excellent, thank you very much.