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Re: [Nmh-workers] Naive Queston About nmh Man Pages
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norm |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] Naive Queston About nmh Man Pages |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Jun 2012 05:35:15 -0700 |
David Levine <address@hidden> writes:
>Norm wrote:
>>
>> configure
>> make
>> make check
>> make install
>>
>> Therefore, accepting all the defaults.
>>
>> Than I did 'man scan' and got 'No manual entry for scan'.
>>
>> Then I did
>>
>> cd /usr/local//nmh
>> ln -s share/man man
>>
>> Now 'man scan" works.
>
>Adding /usr/local/nmh/share/man to your MANPATH environment
>variable will allow you to see the nmh man pages (without
>adding that symlink). That corresponds to the
>/usr/local/nmh/bin that you already add to your PATH, I
>expect.
While you're on the subject, how do I get makewhatis to include
the hierarchy at /usr/local/nmh/share/man, without running
it myself every night via crontab?
Norman Shapiro