Re: man problems

2001-05-31 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:08:34PM +0530, harsha wrote: > hi, >all of a sudden i can't view the man pages. oh. i thought you were looking for date advice there, for a minute. (i shouldn't, i know -- but sometimes it's too hard to resist.) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #22 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL

Re: man problems

2001-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
harsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > all of a sudden i can't view the man pages. > >man man >man: can't set the effective uid: Operation not permitted. > >even when i work as the root it is the same problem. What version of the man-db package do you have? ('dpkg -l man-db') When you say "all of

Re: man problems

1999-06-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: man problems Date: Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:07:10AM -0500 In reply to:Marc Mongeon Quoting Marc Mongeon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I just installed gettyps, and I'm having trouble with the associated man > pages. I've never had to do anything special before to see man pages >

Re: Man problems

1998-01-07 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On 7 Jan, XRD Lab wrote: > > How do I update the database ... man -u (mandb should anyway run weekly at 6 am), but your problem 1) is related to your solution to 2). > > 2. I recently installed MuPAD. To access its manuals, I added the > following line to /etc/profile > > MANPATH=$MANP

Re: Man problems

1998-01-07 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > > I am using Debian 1.3 since six months and am happy with the distribution. > I have a couple of problems for which I need some help: > > 1. I have installed offix-files for which there is manpage files.1x.gz in > /usr/X11R6/man/man1. But 'man files' says 'No manual entry...' I also g