On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:55:10PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > My man pages have all disappeared... > > I did "man netstat" to look something up, and I got nothing... > I mean, no error, but it was an empty page. > > I tried > man ls > man cd > man aptitude > etc., etc... > > same thing...no man pages... > I've never, ever, in over a decade of using gnu/linux, ever lost my man > pages. Man pages are my friend. They've always been there for me. > I'm lost without them... > > This is on squeeze, amd64, updated this morning. > The machine ran lenny for two years before squeeze. > I've always had man pages on here. > > Where have they gone? > > I reinstalled manpages, even, and still, no joy. > Why have my man pages abandoned me? > I'm so lost without them... > > Please help.
To clarify one thing, the man pages really haven't disappeared. They're all in /usr/share/man1 ../man2, etc. But man $someprogram gives me nothing. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! 3F330C6E
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