Re: apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.

1996-12-07 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Heiko R. Selber wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > > > On debian-user-digest "Heiko R. Selber" wrote: > > > > > > How do I create the fallback whatis database? Do I need it? > > > > It should be created automatically. > > Go superuser and try mandb -c > > I did it. It sai

Re: apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.

1996-12-06 Thread Heiko R. Selber
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > On debian-user-digest "Heiko R. Selber" wrote: > > Hello, > > > > when looking for manpages with apropos I always get an error message and > > the wildcard search fails for X related (and some other) man pages. > > apropos: warning: can't read the f

Re: apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.

1996-12-06 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On debian-user-digest "Heiko R. Selber" wrote: > Hello, > > when looking for manpages with apropos I always get an error message and > the wildcard search fails for X related (and some other) man pages. > > (I use Debian 1.1.4) > > Look at this: > > BEGIN pretty good example > rudi:~