man pages

[godhelp]

Just installed SunOS 5.8 on Intel PII. Unfortunately not able to see man pages. Any idea how do I enable man (help)pages.

 

[KenCunningham]

Is there any output when you type echo $MANPATH?

You could also try running /usr/bin/catman to create the man pages.

HTH.

 

[godhelp]

Tried #echo $MANPATH, there is no man path displayed and execute ./catman, but nothing was happening. any input..

 

[KenCunningham]

You could try setting MANPATH dynamically using:

export MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man

or similar. If this works add the same line to .profile (or /etc/profile if you want other users to be able to access man pages too).

You don't need the ./ to run catman, try it without.

Get back to with how you get on. I should stress that the above works on sparc systems, but I see no reason why it shouldn't on Intel ones.

 

[dbase77]

Hi,

I wonder if you have man page package installed? Check this package on you system by issuing:

pkginfo | grep SUNWman

regards,
feroz

 

[godhelp]

Hi All,

I confirmed manpath. Thanks for your input.

Pkg, found there is no online man pages. I wonder why it was happening.

 

[waaw]

Any idea how do i proceed further, confirmed there is no pkg related to online man pages.

 

[dbase77]

HI,

waaw, Install man package from solaris CD. I think on second CD. Not sure myself. Mount your cdrom, usually it will mount for you automatically using voume manager. cd to pkgs directory and type "pkgadd -d pkgname".

regards,
feroz