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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Makewhatis dies!
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 04:33:50 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young) writes:
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- >I had just finished updating the TeX man pages (not done automatically
- >by SLS which was pretty frustrating.. what do I know from groff!?!?!)
- >and so I naturally figured on trying to update the whatis database.
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- >It seemed that makewhatis was an appropriate means of doing this but
- >it chugged for a few minutes then reported several broken pipes... now
- >my whatis database appears to be gone.
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- >Any ideas?
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- >Jonathan Young
-
- Get the man package down from tsx-11.mit.edu in the pub/linux/sources/FSF
- and recompile it. This included a makewhatis script that pretty well.
- It also means you can configure your man settings to whatever you desire.
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- James
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