man pages

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Sep 6 02:55:35 UTC 2010


On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 08:43:53PM -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> I did a minimal install of FC14. What is the package for the man command?
> There is no package "man" which is where it was in the previous versions of 
> fedora.

$ yum whatprovides man
[...]
man-db-2.5.7-5.fc15.x86_64 : Database cached manual pager suite

That's kind of an unfortunate description -- "manual pager" sounds like one
must flip through a book by hand.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630506




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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences


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