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Rahul Gill
Rahul Gill

Reputation: 33

How to update man pages database?

Man is missing many entries(almost all system calls). It also doesn't work with --update argument. What is the issue? When I tried for 'open', It showed manual for Perl's open.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3423

Answers (1)

gavenkoa
gavenkoa

Reputation: 48893

man uses predefined search path or colon separated MANPATH.

It is meaningless to update "database". You could rebuild a search cache for apropos or like commands, but it doesn't influence browsing installed man pages.

If your MANPATH is OK and you miss some pages it means you haven't installed them to the system ))

Upvotes: 0

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