Thread: man-db on harmattan
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u7knv9h is offline u7knv9h
2015-01-24 , 17:36
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Originally Posted by lokai View Post
Hmm, as I have man-db on my N900 I never was so masochistic to try on N9...

But yesterday I tried and failed, more or less the same way.
I extracted with -x and also control files with -e.
Copied extracted etc usr var directories directly to /.
Ran pre/postinst with 'configure 2.5.1'.
And ran 'mandb'.
(installed also groff-base, but just as no other idea)

But output is still
i tried redoing everything in / like you and i'm getting the same running as 'user' (running with ariadne i get the same i got before and posted in the screenshot)



Originally Posted by peterleinchen View Post
Okay installed (almost the same steps as lokai). And man starts but shows no result.

But the I saw under /usr/man/man1 I have one gz for bzip2.
And guess what?
man bzip2
shows me manpages for bzip2.

So, how to populate the man pages db (gz directory)?
like nieldk said, just pick them from any distro
you might try setting your MANPATHs too, since the man-db package provides some manpages in /usr/share/man
 

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