On Tuesday 30 August 2005 11:29, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Steven T. Hatton <hattons@globalsymmetry.com> [08-30-05 10:13]:
There are plenty of other man pages from X11.
Try:
rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep -i xterm
I should be able to type `man xterm' and get the xterm man page. It looks like this:
I am aware of the looks of an xterm man page.
the 'rpm -ql ...' will give you the location of the man pages you are not able to otherwise access. Then compare to your $MANPATH to see why you don't see them with the man invocation and make the necessary corrections, if necessary.
linux does require thought, a _good_thing_ (TM)
Think about this. THE FILE ISN'T IN THE RPM. $ typeset -f pathlist pathlist () { if [ "$#" = "0" ]; then echo "usage: pathlist <variable_name>"; return; fi; eval "echo -e \${$1//:/'\n':}" } $ pathlist MANPATH /home/hattons/man :/usr/share/man :/home/hattons/opt/org/xemacs/man :/home/hattons/opt/com/sun/jdk1.5.0_04/man :/usr/local/man :/usr/X11R6/man :/opt/gnome/share/man :/opt/gnome/man :/usr/man :/usr/X11R6/man :/usr/man :/usr/X11R6/man $ locate xterm.1x.gz However: zgrep man1/xterm /var/lib/pin/ARCHIVES.gz ./CD1/suse/i586/xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-15.i586.rpm: -r--r--r-- 1 root root 39254 Oct 4 19:56 /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz $ rpm -ql xorg-x11-man-6.8.2-30 | grep -i xterm $ -- Regards, Steven