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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No manual entry for emerge
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:55:03
Message-Id: CAA2qdGW+TXFY5U7pqqX2HQQTsCVcnrH9OgQC8rypb1GEPc6EHg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No manual entry for emerge by Florian Philipp
1 On Dec 24, 2011 7:44 PM, "Florian Philipp" <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote:
2 >
3 > Am 24.12.2011 13:32, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
4 > >
5 > > On Dec 24, 2011 7:28 PM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info
6 > > <mailto:pandu@××××××.info>> wrote:
7 > >>
8 > >>
9 > >> On Dec 24, 2011 7:15 PM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com
10 > > <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote:
11 > >> >
12 > >> > Vishnupradeep wrote:
13 > >> >>
14 > >> >> man emerge
15 > >> >> sh: /usr/bin/less: No such file or directory
16 > >> >> Error executing formatting or display command.
17 > >> >> System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".ll 9.9i"; echo ".nr
18 > > LL 9.9i"; echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/bzip2 -c -d
19 > > '/usr/share/man/man1/emerge.1.bz2'; echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10")
20 > > | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc | /usr/bin/less) exited with
21 > > status 127.
22 > >> >> No manual entry for emerge
23 > >> >>
24 > >> >> What should i do ??
25 > >> >>
26 > >> >> ----
27 > >> >> Linux Blog: http://xtreme-linux.blogspot.com/
28 > >> >> Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/
29 > >> >> My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/
30 > >> >>
31 > >> >>
32 > >> >
33 > >> > I would make sure less is installed. There have been some changes
34 > > to something and some people are letting --depclean or friends remove
35 > > less. It's a long story and there are other threads about it. Just
36 > > check and see if less is installed and if it is not, emerge it and make
37 > > sure it is added to the world file.
38 > >> >
39 > >>
40 > >> In my case, since I'm now using vimpager, I just make a symlink to it:
41 > >>
42 > >> ln -s $(which vimpager) /usr/local/bin/less
43 > >>
44 > >> ... then I purposefully unmerged less :-)
45 > >>
46 > >
47 > > Meh, forgot one very important thing:
48 > >
49 > > echo "MANPAGER=\"$(which vimmanpager)\"" > /etc/env.d/99manpager
50 > > env-update
51 > > source /etc/profile
52 > >
53 > > Rgds,
54 > >
55 >
56 > man honors the PAGER environment variable. You should set this in
57 > /etc/env.d/ instead of symlinking from /usr/local/bin. If you encounter
58 > an application that calls less directly, you should file a bug.
59 >
60
61 If man uses vimpager, it strips out the coloring. vimmanpager activates the
62 necessary incantations to make man output colorful.
63
64 That's why I specify additional MANPAGER in env.
65
66 Rgds,

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