no man-pages on my one

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Hi,

Can someone help me to get man-pages??

When I tried "man" at the terminal I got "command not found".

Then I installed a package called "man-pages - 2.66-1.fc8.noarch", but still "man" is an unknown command.

Don't get it. Can someone help me please?
 
I don't understand the reply?! "hay" is just "hay" for me... (Am german...)

And explaining? Well, using something like "man wget" just gives me a "command unknown" as a result.

So i installed the package - s.a. Now "whereis man" gives me folders with the gzipped man documents, but "man" is still an unknown command.

Do you oob have man-pages? And how can I change it here?
 
Same happens in mine, but could use "info" instead man, works actually with a little bit more info, than man...

please try it, I'll try to deveal the mistery anyway...
 
If you try 'rpm -Va' the RPM database will verify the installed files against the database.

What this will show you (I have tried it), is that all the man files in all the packages were manually deleted after installation...

I guess they did this to save space, but it does leave the RPM database in a messy state. It would have been preferable to recompile the source rpms with the man pages removed.
 
I try Info pages again, and they were not shown anything the db was messed,a s ags says.

So I made the following.

# sudo yum install man
# sudo yum install man-pages (<-- I don't remember if this was working but it won't harm you if you try it)
# sudo yum install mlocate
# sudo updatedb

And everything works greate now, with find, locate, apropos, etc.

I hope this helps.
 
I did this and all the man pages were loaded. However, "man" produces corrupted characters and gives the warning:
WARNING: old character encoding and/or character set

Is this a groff or font issue?
 
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