[SOLVED] Where are all of the Man pages?

handy · 2008-10-19 00:56:54

On my system, man-pages do not exist for many things e.g. bash commands like ls, rm, cp & cd are missing?

The directory /usr/man/ has the following folders: man1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8

It would seem that at least numbers 2 & 6 are missing.

I have reinstalled the man utility (though it already worked) & man-pages, though it doesn't give me access to the bash commands that I know man pages exist for.

Any ideas?

Last edited by handy (2008-10-19 03:49:01)

moljac024 · 2008-10-19 00:58:34

Have you been living under a rock ?
You need to have this in your /etc/profile:

unset MANPATH

creslin · 2008-10-19 01:10:16

Are you saying 'man bash' shows nothing or are you just going by the fact that it's not in /usr/man? If the latter, that's because those man pages are in /usr/share/man..

Last edited by creslin (2008-10-19 03:09:17)

handy · 2008-10-19 02:54:24

moljac024 wrote:

Have you been living under a rock ?
You need to have this in your /etc/profile:
unset MANPATH

No I don't live under a rock, & I can't read man-pages that I want, to further educate myself.

This is what I have that relates to man in /etc/profile

export MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man"

I put unset MANPATH into the /etc/profile which has had no effect after a logout.

If I type unset MANPATH followed by enter, followed by man ls I get the man-page for ls

Last edited by handy (2008-10-19 03:00:16)

SamC · 2008-10-19 03:02:18

Did you get rid of the "export MANPATH" statement first?

handy · 2008-10-19 03:14:04

creslin wrote:

Are you saying 'man bash' shows nothing or are you just going by the fact that it's not in usr/man? If the latter, that's because those man pages are in /usr/share/man..

Man ls, cd, cp, rm & the like do not show.

Following the post above I can get them to show only by first entering the command unset MANPATH at the Terminal prompt, after which any commands I require are available. If I close that terminal & start a new one I can not access these commands without first entering unset MANPATH.

Which is now entered in my /etc/profile/ but it has no noticeable effect.

Though since having entered unset MANPATH, one way or another there are now man-pages that existing where they did not before, so perhaps they were extracted into these directories.

handy · 2008-10-19 03:15:29

SamC wrote:

Did you get rid of the "export MANPATH" statement first?

No, I am trying to interpret & do what I'm told! lol

I'm only as good as my instructions at the moment.

Thanks

Last edited by handy (2008-10-19 03:41:16)

handy · 2008-10-19 03:40:30

I rebooted, & now man is working as it should, thank moljack & SamC, between the two of you it works now.

Onwards · 2008-10-19 08:54:32

handy wrote:

Which is now entered in my /etc/profile/ but it has no noticeable effect.

/etc/profile is read by the login shells only. So you could have got the desired effect w/o a reboot by doing either:

su -

OR...

konsole --ls  #starting it as a login shell

handy · 2008-10-19 10:10:28

Onwards wrote:

handy wrote:
Which is now entered in my /etc/profile/ but it has no noticeable effect.
/etc/profile is read by the login shells only. So you could have got the desired effect w/o a reboot by doing either:
su -
OR...
konsole --ls  #starting it as a login shell

What I needed to know was not just the line to add & where, which first answer told me, but also the line to delete, which second useful answer told me. I had logged out after adding the line, & decided after the removing the offending line that I will reboot for good measure!

Thanks for your confirmation that a logout would have done the job.

Misfit138 · 2008-10-19 12:14:31

This was the .pacnew merge I referred to way back when, which fixed man page functionality, handy.

handy · 2008-10-19 12:53:57

You may have noticed by my absence from the Arch forum for some months, that I have just been using. & since I went from Gnome to Openbox I've not changed anything. Then I got into changing both of my Arch installs & the sky fell on me! lol

Last edited by handy (2008-10-19 12:54:40)

iphitus · 2008-10-19 12:57:27

lol awesome. this fixes my man pages.

I'd been ignoring this for a while and running man via sudo...

Misfit138 · 2008-10-19 16:42:37

iphitus wrote:

I'd been ignoring this for a while and running man via sudo...

O! You naughty, naughty boy..

Frots · 2008-10-27 12:34:51

iphitus wrote:

lol awesome. this fixes my man pages.
I'd been ignoring this for a while and running man via sudo...

+1

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