[kde-linux] Man pages in Konqueror

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 11 February 2006 08:24, Werner Joss wrote:
> 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/blackdo
>wn-jdk-1.4.2.03/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man)

It was nothing.

>
> > 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 ?
>
Ah, yes.  Now it echoes the path and I can read and print the man pages.  
Thanks.

Anne
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