Xman can't find manual pages

[Tom Womack]

This is Ubuntu Feisty.

running 'xman' says 'Xman Error: No manual pages found.'

running 'xman -helpfile /usr/share/man' says the same

[Tom Womack (tom-womack)]

xman appears to have been horribly miscompiled; 'strace xman' includes many lines of the form

open("${prefix}/share/man/man1", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1

and only works at all if I do (the truly hideous command)

ln -s "/usr" "\${prefix}"

My shell is /bin/bash, if that's relevant and the problem is to do with shell variable expansion.

[Júlio Alexandrino (alexandrino)]

I can confirm this bug. Feisty RC 20070415 here.

julio@julio-desktop:~$ xman
Xman Error: No manual pages found.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

this will be fixed when the xbase-clients split is done in Debian and imported in Ubuntu.

[Andrew Straw (astraw)]

This is annoying, but you can start xman with

MANPATH=/usr/share/man xman

[somitras (somitras)]

Rather than calling xman with parameters for MANPATH everytime, just add the following lines to /etc/profile

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

Once the profile file runs, you will be able to run xman in the normal way.
There are two ways to achieve that. Either log out once and then log in again, Or run the following command :

#source /etc/profile

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

fixed in hardy.