Topic: Where did man got after install and update?

[Tom Carroll]

I just noticed that my man command no longer works.  It before installing the blade update_1 for 5.1.2.

The install was a fresh install onto a new server and then I applied the blade update and did a restore from desktop.

How can I check to ensure all my man pages are there and get man working again?

I check it and man isn't even installed according to rpm -q man

The specific error I get is:

[root@myserver root]# man mail
bash: man: command not found

Thanks!

Tom Carroll

[Tom Carroll]

Well, after some further research and downloading the man rpm and installing it, everything seems to be working fine now.  The man pages are there, so it appears.

No idea why man was not installed.  I read somewhere that Charlie Brady had recommended someone uninstall the man rpm to avoid an error that was being reported, but it did not apply to any of my past situations, therefore I don't think I uninstalled it...

Beats me what happend.

Tom Carroll

[Ray Mitchell]

Tom
Would you mind telling me where you downloaded the man rpm from. I would like to instal it too
Thanks
Ray Mitchell

[Daniel van Raay]

There are many places you can find the man RPM.  It is actually on the SME CD or you can try a redhat mirror:
   ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.1/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/man-1.5h1-20.i386.rpm

Daniel van Raay

[Martin]

What is man ?

[Ray Mitchell]

Thanks Daniel
man will help my newbie linux skills to understand things a bit better.

for Martin
I think man means manual or manual pages, and it gives the manual pages for a particular rpm that is installed ie something like help for the rpm

usage
man rpmname
eg
man ssh

type Q to exit man

I believe man was removed in 5.1.2 to fix the broken pipe (or similar) ?? message.
man had to be unistalled in 4.1.2 to stop the same weekly message being generated, although the message did not cause a problem, some people found it annoying

Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Tom Carroll]

www.rpmfind.net and grab the RPM for the Redhat 7.1 i386 platform.

Tom Carroll

[Tom Carroll]

man is equivilant (but better) to the DOS help.  It provides a manual page or instructions how to use a particular program or command.  Not all commands or programs have a man page.  There is a project out there that is working on documenting via man pages for those apps and commands that do not have a man page.

You can search via google on man and Dan York.  Dan posted a message to another forum with a hyperlink to the project that I was looking at last night.

Man is a great resource for those of us who are new to Linux.

Tom Carroll

[Jason Judge]

man is a great tool for the most experienced of Unix developers. It saves having to fill your head with too many details.