On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:24:18PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > I just noticed that man pages installed in ~/.local/share/man are not found > by apropos. This appears to be because there’s no database for this > directory. man finds the directory via the corresponding ~/.local/bin entry > in PATH. It would be nice if apropos worked too.
Have you tried just running mandb as your user? That should create a suitable database. > Since a workaround is to use man -K, how about defaulting -k to try > the -K method where no database or whatis file is found? -K searches rather a lot more of the page text than -k does, though, so will often give dramatically different results. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
