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zkab

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Registered: 2014-05-05

Posts: 4

[Solved] Man pages

I install recently Xubuntu 15.04 to test it.
When I want to look at man pages there is an error message:
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'man ls'
man: can't execute most: No such file or directory
man: command exited with status 255: (cd /home/raivo && LESS=-ix8RmPm Manual page ls(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$PM Manual page ls(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$ MAN_PN=ls(1) most)
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but giving 'sudo man ls' works OK.

Why do I have to sudo to get man pages ?

Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 863

Re: [Solved] Man pages

Neither one works here.

To see them I use as regular user

apropos man

To get a list

apropos man > manfiles.txt

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: [Solved] Man pages

Does the following work:

export MANPAGER=less
man ls

If so, find where you've set "MANPAGER=most" and remove it. Or install the "most" package if you want to use it as the pager.

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zkab

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Registered: 2014-05-05

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Man pages

Thanks ToZ - now it works OK

Last edited by zkab (2015-06-01 08:38:03)