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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)
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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
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I have both of those files, and I don't have a $MANPATH set
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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.
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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.
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Well by golly that did it. Thanks!!
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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?
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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.
There shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or vi -- mg (1)
[You learn that sarcasm does not often work well in international forums. That is why we avoid it. -- ewaller (arch linux forum moderator)
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akurashy re-install groff pacman -S groff
---for there is nothing either good or bad, but only thinking makes it so....
Hamlet, W Shakespeare
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@kishd: thanks that worked out
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