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Re: [Nmh-workers] Naive Queston About nmh Man Pages
From: |
David Levine |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] Naive Queston About nmh Man Pages |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:25:25 -0400 |
Norm wrote:
> Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> writes:
> >>Shouldn't etc have have a link, man -> share/man ?
> >
> >You mean, you want (default installation):
> >
> >/usr/local/nmh/etc/man -> ../share/man
>
> Don't know what I "want". That's why I didn't make a request, but =
> asked a question.
>
> >
> >I'm not sure I see the need myself; care to explain? You can change =
> the
> >directory used by the man pages via the --mandir option to configure.
>
> I did
>
> configure
> make
> make check
> make install
>
> Therefore, accepting all the defaults.
>
> Than I did 'man scan' and got 'No manual entry for scan'.
>
> Then I did
>
> cd /usr/local//nmh
> ln -s share/man man
>
> Now 'man scan" works.
Adding /usr/local/nmh/share/man to your MANPATH environment
variable will allow you to see the nmh man pages (without
adding that symlink). That corresponds to the
/usr/local/nmh/bin that you already add to your PATH, I
expect.
David