Need help reinstalling Man pages 1

[gcazian]

We recently upgraded a few of our servers from AIX 4.3 to 5.1.

Now, the man pages appear to be missing:

# man ls
Manual entry for ls not found or not installed.

# echo $MANPATH
/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man

Yet, it looks like bos.rte.man is installed:
bos.rte.man 5.1.0.35 COMMITTED Man Commands

Anyone know if there is something else I need to install to get these man pages working again?

Thanks.

 

[adamsd]

Hi!
You have to uninstall the man pages and reinstall using smitty. This should work because I had the same problem on a number of servers.

Cheers,

 

[gcazian]

Thanks for responding.

Specifically, which fileset did you uninstall and reinstall?

Regards!

 

[bi]

Before reinstalling anything, try running the catman command to reformat the man pages. It may take a while to run, so be patient.

 

[gcazian]

I have running the catman command, but the man pages are still missing...any other suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Henrick]

If you force install the base level fileset:

bos.man.en_US.cmds


This should resolve the problem.