Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:49:05 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: Dale Scott <dalescott@shaw.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help accessing mdbtools man pages in /usr/local/share/man Message-ID: <20120116204905.GD1241@sirius.xvoid.org> In-Reply-To: <fb8dbdc889d72.4f1425c3@shaw.ca> References: <fb8dbdc889d72.4f1425c3@shaw.ca>
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 01:27:31PM -0700, Dale Scott wrote: > I installed mdbtools from source on github and it put its man pages in > "/usr/local/share/man/man1", where the default man command doesn't find > them (although "man -M /usr/local/share/man mdb-export" works). Just use `man /full/path/to/the/manpage`. Also check man(1) and man.conf(5) on how to specify additional MANPATHs. > From "man hier", it looks like the man pages should have been put into > "/usr/local/man". Is that correct? Also, the pages aren't in gz format > (just "mdb-export.1"). Is there a typical workaround? (I expect this is > not uncommon for an app coming from the Linux world?). It's not uncommon, but such stuff should be fixed when porting something from "Linux world" and manpages should go to /usr/local/man, as hier(7) tells. Yuri
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