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Plese execuse me if you have seen this issue before. i am trying to use xman
to view the man pages, /etc/man.config is correct, i don't man $MANPATH
environment variable. so, when i type xman i get this error message: Xman
Error: No manual pages found

what gives here.

thanx
mark

I've done a little testing and convinced myself that xman
no longer identifies bzip'd manual pages as existing.  An
uncompressed manual page in /usr/X11R6/man/man1 is found; it
wasn't found when compressed (bzip'd).

xman also ignores the MANPATH environment variable.  I
uncompressed a manual page and put it in my local manual stash;
it wasn't found.

Beyond that, when xman finds the manual page, it can't read it
correctly.  Instead it bombs with

    "sh: zsoelim: command not found"

The string "zsoelim" is in the xman binary.  Searching through
the list of files in the entire Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack, the only
zsoelim related files I find are:

    /usr/share/man/de/man1/zsoelim.1.bz2
    /usr/share/man/pl/man1/zsoelim.1.bz2

They don't do much good, even if they were installed on my "en"
system.

Checking on rpmfind.net for zsoelim I find that it's part of the
man-1.5k packages in the "PLD Distribution" and part of the
groff-1.1[78] packages on Redhat, ASP and Yellow Dog
distributions.  I had a look at the ChangeLog for thd PLD man
package and found the note "added zsoelim as link to soelim (it
exists in man_db; xman requires it)" in the log.  I made this
link:

    ln -s soelim /usr/bin/zsoelim

as root.  Now the uncompressed manual page displays just fine
with xman.  The bzip compressed manual pages still aren't found,
unless I specify the manual section, e.g. "rman.1" instead of
"rman".  When I do that, xman finds rman.1x.bz2, treats it as an
uncompressed manual page, and displays garbage.

Oddly enough gzip compressed manual pages *ARE* found.  Looking
through the xman binary, gzip does appear in there, but bzip
doesn't.

For what it's worth, I almost always use TkMan to view manual
pages, but it displays some pages wrong.  In those cases I used
to use xman, but it doesn't work anymore.  So, now I use 'man'
from the command line when TkMan doesn't work.  This isn't nearly
as good as things used to be.

I hope someone can use some of this info to dig deeper and find a
solution.

Cheers....

--
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.

I've done a little testing and convinced myself that xman
no longer identifies bzip'd manual pages as existing.  An
uncompressed manual page in /usr/X11R6/man/man1 is found; it
wasn't found when compressed (bzip'd).

xman also ignores the MANPATH environment variable.  I
uncompressed a manual page and put it in my local manual stash;
it wasn't found.

Beyond that, when xman finds the manual page, it can't read it
correctly.  Instead it bombs with

    "sh: zsoelim: command not found"

The string "zsoelim" is in the xman binary.  Searching through
the list of files in the entire Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack, the only
zsoelim related files I find are:

    /usr/share/man/de/man1/zsoelim.1.bz2
    /usr/share/man/pl/man1/zsoelim.1.bz2

They don't do much good, even if they were installed on my "en"
system.

Checking on rpmfind.net for zsoelim I find that it's part of the
man-1.5k packages in the "PLD Distribution" and part of the
groff-1.1[78] packages on Redhat, ASP and Yellow Dog
distributions.  I had a look at the ChangeLog for thd PLD man
package and found the note "added zsoelim as link to soelim (it
exists in man_db; xman requires it)" in the log.  I made this
link:

    ln -s soelim /usr/bin/zsoelim

as root.  Now the uncompressed manual page displays just fine
with xman.  The bzip compressed manual pages still aren't found,
unless I specify the manual section, e.g. "rman.1" instead of
"rman".  When I do that, xman finds rman.1x.bz2, treats it as an
uncompressed manual page, and displays garbage.

Oddly enough gzip compressed manual pages *ARE* found.  Looking
through the xman binary, gzip does appear in there, but bzip
doesn't.

For what it's worth, I almost always use TkMan to view manual
pages, but it displays some pages wrong.  In those cases I used
to use xman, but it doesn't work anymore.  So, now I use 'man'
from the command line when TkMan doesn't work.  This isn't nearly
as good as things used to be.

I hope someone can use some of this info to dig deeper and find a
solution.

Cheers....

--
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.