MANPATH problem

[Sauvik Basu]

How do I add something to MANPATH variable permanently?

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Check your /etc/profile

# Set MANPATH to the contents of /etc/MANPATH, if it exists.
if [ -r /etc/MANPATH ]
then
MANPATH=`cat /etc/MANPATH`
fi
export MANPATH

Add the new path to the /etc/MANPATH file.


Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

if u have not modify "# Set MANPATH" variable in /etc/profile, just vi to /etc/MANPATH and add the new path with a colon (:) as a separator.

hope it helps.

regards.

[Sauvik Basu]

But I don't have /etc/MANPATH file.So what do I do?

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

then u just have to create one.

# vi /etc/MANPATH
/usr/share/man/%L:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man/%L:/usr/local/man/
after adding the rest of the manual path, chown:
# chown bin:bin /etc/MANPATH
# chmod 444 /etc/MANPATH

regards.

regards.

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

If you are a normal user, then there might be a possibility you don't have access to /etc/MANPATH.

So just edit your .profile
MANPATH=$MANPATH:...

[Bill Hassell]

"I don't have /etc/MANPATH"

Are you running a very old version of HP-UX (pre-10.00)? If so, then /etc/PATH and /etc/MANPATH won't exist and you have no choice but to create something like that in that very obsolete system. If this is 10.20 or 11.xx or later, then someone has removed /etc/MANPATH, which is not a good idea. Many installation and patch packages will add updated pathname information to these files. For 10.xx and higher, your /etc/pofile will have statements like:

PATH=`cat /etc/PATH`
MANPATH=`cat /etc/MANPATH`

(usually wrapped in an if test for readability of those files) If those statements are not in /etc/profile, make sure they go back in again. See the original /etc/profile that came with your system at:

/usr/newconfig/etc/profile

And for pre-10.00 systems, just add a statements like the above to your /etc/profile and simply add to the single line in /etc/MANPATH or /etc/PATH as needed. NOTE: Both files must have one long line (become familiar with vi and very long lines) for the complete list.