From: Greg Hogan <code@greghogan.com>
To: Pan Xie <xiepan@skyguard.com.cn>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mandb does not include guix package man pages
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:22:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+3U0Zmx9KQZj13PKBfTEAzEVotEtj=e_HBFAWLGw54Eoy+8pQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36d2bb47-0786-475d-87eb-ced11a059681@skyguard.com.cn>
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 1:49 AM Pan Xie <xiepan@skyguard.com.cn> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I find this issue on both GuixSD and guix package manager on ArchLinux.
> The problem is `man -k' can not find manpages installed by guix. I
> believe the issue is caused by `mandb' does not include guix packages'
> man pages when generating its index database.
Hi Pan,
On a foreign distro I install the guix package 'man-db', add the
following to my .bashrc, and am able to access both system and guix
man pages.
export MANPATH=$MANPATH${MANPATH:+:}/usr/share/man
Documentation at
https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Required-packages.html
Greg
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2024-03-13 5:49 Mandb does not include guix package man pages Pan Xie
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