* Re: [gentoo-user] No manual entry for emerge
@ 2011-12-24 12:53 99% ` Pandu Poluan
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From: Pandu Poluan @ 2011-12-24 12:53 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Dec 24, 2011 7:44 PM, "Florian Philipp" <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:
>
> Am 24.12.2011 13:32, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
> >
> > On Dec 24, 2011 7:28 PM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@poluan.info
> > <mailto:pandu@poluan.info>> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Dec 24, 2011 7:15 PM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@gmail.com
> > <mailto:rdalek1967@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Vishnupradeep wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> man emerge
> >> >> sh: /usr/bin/less: No such file or directory
> >> >> Error executing formatting or display command.
> >> >> System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".ll 9.9i"; echo ".nr
> > LL 9.9i"; echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/bzip2 -c -d
> > '/usr/share/man/man1/emerge.1.bz2'; echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10")
> > | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc | /usr/bin/less) exited with
> > status 127.
> >> >> No manual entry for emerge
> >> >>
> >> >> What should i do ??
> >> >>
> >> >> ----
> >> >> Linux Blog: http://xtreme-linux.blogspot.com/
> >> >> Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/
> >> >> My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > I would make sure less is installed. There have been some changes
> > to something and some people are letting --depclean or friends remove
> > less. It's a long story and there are other threads about it. Just
> > check and see if less is installed and if it is not, emerge it and make
> > sure it is added to the world file.
> >> >
> >>
> >> In my case, since I'm now using vimpager, I just make a symlink to it:
> >>
> >> ln -s $(which vimpager) /usr/local/bin/less
> >>
> >> ... then I purposefully unmerged less :-)
> >>
> >
> > Meh, forgot one very important thing:
> >
> > echo "MANPAGER=\"$(which vimmanpager)\"" > /etc/env.d/99manpager
> > env-update
> > source /etc/profile
> >
> > Rgds,
> >
>
> man honors the PAGER environment variable. You should set this in
> /etc/env.d/ instead of symlinking from /usr/local/bin. If you encounter
> an application that calls less directly, you should file a bug.
>
If man uses vimpager, it strips out the coloring. vimmanpager activates the
necessary incantations to make man output colorful.
That's why I specify additional MANPAGER in env.
Rgds,
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