[gentoo-user] Howto Read the Fine Manual

[gentoo-user] Howto Read the Fine Manual

[Florian Philipp]

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Hi!

This question is so basic it's nearly embarrassing to ask...

Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything? 

For example:
# man -k man
man: nothing appropriate

Thanks in advance

Florian Philipp

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Re: [gentoo-user] Howto Read the Fine Manual

[Dan Farrell]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 22:09:33 +0200
Florian Philipp <f.philipp@addcom.de> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> This question is so basic it's nearly embarrassing to ask...
> 
> Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything? 
> 
> For example:
> # man -k man
> man: nothing appropriate
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Florian Philipp

you need to build the database first.  try 'makewhatis' as root
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Re: [gentoo-user] Howto Read the Fine Manual

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Tuesday 22 May 2007 22:09:33 Florian Philipp wrote:
> Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything?
>
> For example:
> # man -k man
> man: nothing appropriate

sys-apps/man installs a cron job in /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis. Did you 
install a cron daemon? Is it configured to run cron jobs in /etc/cron.*/ ? 
(vixie-cron defaults to that).

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9#doc_chap2

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Re: [gentoo-user] Howto Read the Fine Manual

[Florian Philipp]

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Am Dienstag 22 Mai 2007 22:53 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2007 22:09:33 Florian Philipp wrote:
> > Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything?
> >
> > For example:
> > # man -k man
> > man: nothing appropriate
>
> sys-apps/man installs a cron job in /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis. Did you
> install a cron daemon? Is it configured to run cron jobs in /etc/cron.*/ ?
> (vixie-cron defaults to that).
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9#doc_ch
>ap2

Ah, thanks, Dan and Bo!

It seems I've forgotten to activate vixie.

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