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by **Peter Amber** » Thu, 16 Dec 1999 04:00:00

When I try to use apropos, I always get the error "apropos: nothing
appropriate" although "man" knows about the command. It looks like as if
apropos' database has not been built when I installed the man pages. How
can I manually build/update the database?

Thanks a lot,
/Peter

by **Bernhard Fuers** » Thu, 16 Dec 1999 04:00:00

> When I try to use apropos, I always get the error "apropos: nothing
> appropriate" although "man" knows about the command. It looks like as if

You first have to create the whatis database with /usr/sbin/makewhatis
You can find this hint in whatis(1) ('man whatis') which is refered by
apropos(1) ...

ciao,
Bernhard
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Apropos does not seem to work

Apropos does not seem to work

Apropos does not seem to work