Re: makewhatis
> Is there supposed to be a "makewhatis" somewhere in the Debian
> distribution? I keep getting:
> apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
> apropos: /usr/man/whatis: No such file or directory
> apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
> apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No such file or directory
Look at mandb. Try reading the mandb man page. mandb -c will re-create
the man whatis database from the installed man pages.
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- John Larkin
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