Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 05:25:22 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg question .... Message-ID: <20140806052522.b6c10548.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <53E19A5D.1000109@hiwaay.net> References: <53E0D2B7.9060402@hiwaay.net> <20140805131910.GA72939@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53E0E281.9030306@hiwaay.net> <20140805211310.GA77763@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53E19A5D.1000109@hiwaay.net>
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On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 22:00:45 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 08/05/14 16:13, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 08:56:17AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> OK, very well. I just installed XFCE, rxvt, & samba 3.6, When I do an > >> 'apropos xfce', is says 'xfce: nothing appropriate' .... I did a > >> 'makewhatis -av' & still nothing .... surely there are some man pages ?!?!?! > > Odd. If you look at /etc/man.conf, does it contain the following line? > > > > MANPATH /usr/local/man > > No .... Maybe OPTIONAL_MANPATH /usr/local/man instead? However, /usr/local/man is a _default_ path and should be reflected as such in this file. > > And there are xfce manpages in /usr/local/man, yes? > > No .... Maybe they got deselected when building and installing Xfce? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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