problems with manThor after 10.2 upgrade

Rhino_G3

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I've been using a man page viewer called manthor for quite a while now. the manpages within the terminal still work properly but the viewer does not seem to. Whatever I search for it can not find man pages for that specific topic.

I had searched the forum and only found problems while Fink was installed, which I do not have.
Has anybody else had this trouble?
 
Check manThor preferences...Apple may have changed manpath, and the change has not been seen by manthor...
You can get your current manpath by typing this in terminal:
'echo $MANPATH' without quotes (this at least applies to BASH...)
 
I tried using that command and I ended up with nothing... literally

[Apollo:~] ryan% echo $MANPATH
MANPATH: Undefined variable.
[Apollo:~] ryan% bash
bash-2.05a$ echo $MANPATH

bash-2.05a$
 
No preferences in manThor 1.0 but I found a newer beta with a manpath preference, doesn't seem to work (in 10.2) though ...
 
I'm sure it probably will work with the right manpath preference. I never thought to look at that before.
 
upon doing a little research in the terminal, I think I found the man pages.
they're located in /usr/share/man I believe.
looking at the manpath.config file in /etc it shows the mandatory manpath to be the same.

manthor still doesn't work... oh well. I may just try to find another external man viewer.

Anybody have any ideas?
 
ok, lets try different way...in terminal cd to /etc, there should be file called profile or similar? "more" it, also take a peek into man.conf, there are few paths...
 
This is my entire manpath.conf file... I was under the impression that if I would add /usr/share/man to my prefs in manthor that it would work. Maybe it's just a problem with manthor.
That didn't seem to work


# $FreeBSD: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath/manpath.config,v 1.18 2002/03/23 00:04:$
#
# This file is read by manpath(1) to configure the mandatory manpath,
# optional manpath and to map each path element to a manpath element.
# The format is:
#
# MANDATORY_MANPATH manpath_element
# OPTIONAL_MANPATH manpath_element
# MANPATH_MAP path_element manpath_element
# MANLOCALES locale1 locale2 ...
#
# every automatically generated MANPATH includes these fields
#
MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/share/man
#
# check if the directory exists and if it does, add it to MANPATH
#
OPTIONAL_MANPATH /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/man
#
# set up PATH to MANPATH mapping
#
MANPATH_MAP /bin /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man
MANPATH_MAP /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/X11R6/man
#
# set man locales, if needed
#
#MANLOCALES ru_RU.KOI8-R
Click to expand...

below is my /etc/profile

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"

export PATH
Click to expand...

 
Darn! I was under that impression too...oh, and that profile is for sh-shells only...if you do not use bash as your main shell environment, do not care about it.
 
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