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Date:      13 Feb 2003 15:12:46 -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:  <1045167165.308.62.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <3E4BFAB9.50906@fnug.net>
References:  <3E4BB56E.20300@fnug.net> <1045155770.308.25.camel@gyros> <3E4BE59B.2050305@fnug.net> <1045164292.308.47.camel@gyros> <3E4BFAB9.50906@fnug.net>

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On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 15:06, Paul A. Mayer wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>=20
> That doesn't seemed to have helped ....
>=20
> bashrc:
> export \=20
> MANPATH=3D"/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/jdk1.3=
.1/man"
>=20
> set | grep MANPATH
> MANPATH=3D/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/jdk1.3.=
1/man
>=20
> ???

Don't know what to tell you:

> yelp --version
Gnome yelp 2.2.0
> env | grep MANPATH
MANPATH=3D/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/perl/man:=
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/man
> yelp
(Warning: MANPATH environment variable set)

And I see all my manpages.

Joe

>=20
> /Paul
>=20
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:36, Paul A. Mayer wrote:
> >=20
> >>Hi Joe,
> >>
> >>Thanks for the message.
> >>
> >>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 a=
n=20
> >>easy way to teach yelp about /usr/local and other unusual places, if=20
> >>that, indeed is the problem?
> >=20
> >=20
> > Set your MANPATH variable.  Yelp is able to find all my manpages just
> > fine.
> >=20
> > Joe
> >=20
> >=20
> >>/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=20
> >>>>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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Works fine for me.  Do you have any messages in your ~/.xsession-error=
s
> >>>file?
> >>>
> >>>Joe
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Thanks for the help!
> >>>>
> >>>>/Paul
> >>>>
> >>>>(PS, this post after scrounging around on the gnome projects support=20
> >>>>resources ... to no avail.)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> >>>>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
--=20
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