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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:06:17 +0100
From:      "Paul A. Mayer" <paul@fnug.net>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gnome yelp and man pages
Message-ID:  <3E4BFAB9.50906@fnug.net>
In-Reply-To: <1045164292.308.47.camel@gyros>
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Hi Joe,

That doesn't seemed to have helped ....

bashrc:
export \ 
MANPATH="/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/man"

set | grep MANPATH
MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/man

???

/Paul

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:36, Paul A. Mayer wrote:
> 
>>Hi Joe,
>>
>>Thanks for the message.
>>
>>I've been running X from startx, so I gues that's why I don't have an 
>>~/.xsession-errors.  But, taking a cue from your message, I tried 
>>running yelp from the commandline (to see errors if there were any, and 
>>lo' and behold it works -- except for, and this was probably the real 
>>problem anyway, pages added from ports, i.e. in /usr/local.  Is there an 
>>easy way to teach yelp about /usr/local and other unusual places, if 
>>that, indeed is the problem?
> 
> 
> Set your MANPATH variable.  Yelp is able to find all my manpages just
> fine.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
>>/Paul
>>
>>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:10, Paul A. Mayer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Does anyone know how to get gnome2 yelp to actually find the content of 
>>>>system man pages?  The yelp index lists (a subset of the) man page 
>>>>titles but is not able to show their content for some reason.
>>>
>>>
>>>Works fine for me.  Do you have any messages in your ~/.xsession-errors
>>>file?
>>>
>>>Joe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Thanks for the help!
>>>>
>>>>/Paul
>>>>
>>>>(PS, this post after scrounging around on the gnome projects support 
>>>>resources ... to no avail.)
>>>>
>>>>
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