On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:00:25AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:56:17PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > 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 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. > > Okay, perhaps "nothing" is inaccurate, but, as an example, here is what > I see when I do "man ls": > > Manual page ls(1) line ?/? (END) > > That's it. > Same for any other program.
I reinstalled groff and groff-base, and man seems to be working now. weird. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! 3F330C6E
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