Man pages in dolphin or konqueror

[Anne Wilson-5]

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I have been in the habit of reading man pages in konqueror when I need to study them, as the formatting makes it easier on the eye. I haven't been able to since we moved to KDE4. Is this something still missing from the konq-extras, or do I have something wrong?

Typing 'man:yum' tells me that it can't find any man page for yum, yet using the cli it works perfectly.

Anne

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[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday, 2009-10-31, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I have been in the habit of reading man pages in konqueror when I need to
> study them, as the formatting makes it easier on the eye.   I haven't been
> able to since we moved to KDE4.  Is this something still missing from the
> konq-extras, or do I have something wrong?
>
> Typing 'man:yum' tells me that it can't find any man page for yum, yet
>  using the cli it works perfectly.

Maybe some man path variable is overwritten by you distribution's KDE start
script or something like that.
Works here on Debian Sid.

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[Anne Wilson-5]

On Saturday 31 October 2009 11:30:04 Kevin Krammer wrote:

> On Saturday, 2009-10-31, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I have been in the habit of reading man pages in konqueror when I need to
> > study them, as the formatting makes it easier on the eye.   I haven't
> > been able to since we moved to KDE4.  Is this something still missing
> > from the konq-extras, or do I have something wrong?
> >
> > Typing 'man:yum' tells me that it can't find any man page for yum, yet
> >  using the cli it works perfectly.
>
> Maybe some man path variable is overwritten by you distribution's KDE start
> script or something like that.
> Works here on Debian Sid.
>

In that case, I head for KDE-fedora.  Thanks

Anne
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[Anne Wilson-5]

On Saturday 31 October 2009 11:52:42 Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Saturday 31 October 2009 11:30:04 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Saturday, 2009-10-31, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I have been in the habit of reading man pages in konqueror when I need
> > > to study them, as the formatting makes it easier on the eye.   I
> > > haven't been able to since we moved to KDE4.  Is this something still
> > > missing from the konq-extras, or do I have something wrong?
> > >
> > > Typing 'man:yum' tells me that it can't find any man page for yum, yet
> > >  using the cli it works perfectly.
> >
> > Maybe some man path variable is overwritten by you distribution's KDE
> > start script or something like that.
> > Works here on Debian Sid.
>
> In that case, I head for KDE-fedora.  Thanks
>

Indeed - a bug was filed yesterday, it seems

 
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[James Tyrer]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> I have been in the habit of reading man pages in konqueror when I need
> to study them, as the formatting makes it easier on the eye. I haven't
> been able to since we moved to KDE4. Is this something still missing
> from the konq-extras, or do I have something wrong?
>
> Typing 'man:yum'

Doesn't that need a "/".  Well, actually, it seems to work without it.

tells me that it can't find any man page for yum, yet
> using the cli it works perfectly.
>
Where are you using the command line?  In Konsole or in a VT?

Obviously, you can't read man pages in Dolphin because it isn't a
browser.  If you try to open a man page pseudo-URL in Dolphin, it will
be opened in Konqueror.

I presume that you are opening the man pages in Konsole and that works.
  This is strange. :-|  However, it must have something to do with how
the environment variable: "MANPATH" is set -- the MANPATHs set in
"/etc/man.config" are not going to be changed.

You can add the needed MANPATH to "/etc/man.config" and it should fix
the problem.

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[Anne Wilson-5]

On Saturday 31 October 2009 16:43:06 James Tyrer wrote:

> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I have been in the habit of reading man pages in konqueror when I need
> > to study them, as the formatting makes it easier on the eye. I haven't
> > been able to since we moved to KDE4. Is this something still missing
> > from the konq-extras, or do I have something wrong?
> >
> > Typing 'man:yum'
>
> Doesn't that need a "/".  Well, actually, it seems to work without it.
>
> tells me that it can't find any man page for yum, yet
>
> > using the cli it works perfectly.
>
> Where are you using the command line?  In Konsole or in a VT?
>

In Konsole

> Obviously, you can't read man pages in Dolphin because it isn't a
> browser.  If you try to open a man page pseudo-URL in Dolphin, it will
> be opened in Konqueror.
>
Why?  They share so much of the same code.  I understand that it does work,
too.  Here it gives exactly the same message as I get if I try it in
konqueror.

> I presume that you are opening the man pages in Konsole and that works.
>   This is strange. :-|  However, it must have something to do with how
> the environment variable: "MANPATH" is set -- the MANPATHs set in
> "/etc/man.config" are not going to be changed.
>
Yes, it is a Fedora bug.  A report has been raised, so presumably it will get
fixed pretty soon - KDE-Fedora folk are good about that.

> You can add the needed MANPATH to "/etc/man.config" and it should fix
> the problem.
>
The bug report is about F12, but I run the testing and unstable repos, so it's
almost certainly the same.  I think I'll need to wait for the fix.  The report
is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532071

Thanks for trying to help, though

Anne
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