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Date:      13 Feb 2003 14:24:52 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Paul A. Mayer" <paul@fnug.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gnome yelp and man pages
Message-ID:  <1045164292.308.47.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <3E4BE59B.2050305@fnug.net>
References:  <3E4BB56E.20300@fnug.net> <1045155770.308.25.camel@gyros> <3E4BE59B.2050305@fnug.net>

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On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:36, Paul A. Mayer wrote:
> Hi Joe,
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> Thanks for the message.
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> I've been running X from startx, so I gues that's why I don't have an=20
> ~/.xsession-errors.  But, taking a cue from your message, I tried=20
> running yelp from the commandline (to see errors if there were any, and=20
> lo' and behold it works -- except for, and this was probably the real=20
> problem anyway, pages added from ports, i.e. in /usr/local.  Is there an=20
> easy way to teach yelp about /usr/local and other unusual places, if=20
> that, indeed is the problem?

Set your MANPATH variable.  Yelp is able to find all my manpages just
fine.

Joe

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> /Paul
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> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:10, Paul A. Mayer wrote:
> >=20
> >>Does anyone know how to get gnome2 yelp to actually find the content of=
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> >>system man pages?  The yelp index lists (a subset of the) man page=20
> >>titles but is not able to show their content for some reason.
> >=20
> >=20
> > Works fine for me.  Do you have any messages in your ~/.xsession-errors
> > file?
> >=20
> > Joe
> >=20
> >=20
> >>Thanks for the help!
> >>
> >>/Paul
> >>
> >>(PS, this post after scrounging around on the gnome projects support=20
> >>resources ... to no avail.)
> >>
> >>
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