apropos, whatis, man -k are broken, makewhatis is missing. Hardy heron i386 server.
Bug #229202 reported by
canalside
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #50110: man-db should be updated when installing new manpages.
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Bug Description
'apropos', 'whatis' and 'man -k' always return 'nothing appropriate', it seems that there is no whatis database.
'sudo makewhatis' command is missing.
'sudo find / -name makewhatis' can't find it.
'sudo apt-get install makewhatis' can't find it.
Found in Ubuntu Hardy Heron i386 server.
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Please post the output of 'whatis --debug man'.
There are two major implementations of the man suite on Linux. Only one of them provides makewhatis. The one I maintain builds its database in other ways.