[kde-linux] Man pages in Konqueror

[Werner Joss]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:06:36 +0000
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> I like to read man pages in konqueror - it's much easier on the eyes than a 
> terminal.  I've just tried it, though and got
> <quote>
> No man page matching to fdisk found.  You can extend the search path by 
> setting the environment variable MANPATH before starting KDE
> </quote>

what does 'echo $MANPATH' give ?
(mine is
/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/man::/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man)

> I thought that the way to do that was to
> export MANPATH /usr/share/doc/man

shouldn't this be
export MANPATH=/usr/share/doc/man ?

werner