Re: [gentoo-user] No manual entry for emerge

[Florian Philipp]

Am 24.12.2011 13:32, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
>
> On Dec 24, 2011 7:28 PM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info
> <mailto:pandu@××××××.info>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Dec 24, 2011 7:15 PM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com
> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Vishnupradeep wrote:
>> >>
>> >> man emerge
>> >> sh: /usr/bin/less: No such file or directory
>> >> Error executing formatting or display command.
>> >> System command (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".ll 9.9i"; echo ".nr
> LL 9.9i"; echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/bzip2 -c -d
> '/usr/share/man/man1/emerge.1.bz2'; echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10")
> | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc | /usr/bin/less) exited with
> status 127.
>> >> No manual entry for emerge
>> >>
>> >> What should i do ??
>> >>
>> >> ----
>> >> Linux Blog: http://xtreme-linux.blogspot.com/
>> >> Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/
>> >> My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > I would make sure less is installed.  There have been some changes
> to something and some people are letting --depclean or friends remove
> less.  It's a long story and there are other threads about it.  Just
> check and see if less is installed and if it is not, emerge it and make
> sure it is added to the world file.
>> >
>>
>> In my case, since I'm now using vimpager, I just make a symlink to it:
>>
>> ln -s $(which vimpager) /usr/local/bin/less
>>
>> ... then I purposefully unmerged less :-)
>>
>
> Meh, forgot one very important thing:
>
> echo "MANPAGER=\"$(which vimmanpager)\"" > /etc/env.d/99manpager
> env-update
> source /etc/profile
>
> Rgds,
>

man honors the PAGER environment variable. You should set this in
/etc/env.d/ instead of symlinking from /usr/local/bin. If you encounter
an application that calls less directly, you should file a bug.

Regards,
Florian Philipp