how to install man pages (was it whatis ?)

[Frank de Vries]

He geezers

I have not done this for donkeys.
I have a faint notion about installing
man pages of an apps with whatis.
But just to make sure I am not off a tangent.
Can anyone explain it from the top.
Cheers maties.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Frank:

The 'whatis' is a database of keywords for the man pages. It's created with 'catman -w' and updated with 'catman -m' when new manpages are installed.

Once created you can do:

# man -k

...to divulge a list of manpages with the matching .

See the manpages for 'catman' for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Peter Godron]

Frank,
ensure you have all the .Z files in /usr/share/man, /usr/contrib/man or /usr/local/man.

You can re-create whatis with /usr/sbin/catman (Can't remember the options, something like -w -m)

[Arunvijai_4]

Hello Frank,

Take a look at these threads,
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=99091
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=53965

-Arun

[Peter Godron]

Hi Frank,
have you had any luck with getting your man pages installed.? Do you need any more help?

[Frank de Vries]

Thanks for jugging me poor old memory !!
That's worth an extra point .

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Frank,

Also, you can export man pages into $MANPATH variable.

# export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/

-Arun

[Frank de Vries]

Consider it done !

[Muthukumar_5]

whatis a database which is used when using man command with -q and -k option for querying the man pages.

To install new man pages then use MANPATH environment variable to include those pages.

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Muthu