whatis software

[Richard Amick]

I am trying to access the man pages with man -k for a keyword search and I get:
/usr/share/lib/whatis: No such file or directory
I have searched the system for the program to no avail. I have searched for a download from HP for the program and get nothing but the man pages for the program.
This system is running HP-UX 11.0 64-bit version and I need to find the program whatis to be able to search the man pages.
Any help would be appriciated.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Richard:

The 'whatis' is a database generated by catman (do a man catman). This database is used to do keyword queries with man itself (see the man pages for man).

After loading patches, I always do:

# catman -m

...JRF...