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+--- Thread: found fix for man (/showthread.php?tid=5017)
found fix for man - tlaswell - 08-25-2017
So straight out of the case the pinebook wouldn't show any man pages. It would say page ?/? like it didn't have any data for anything.
I tried loading or re-loading man-db (sudo apt install man-db) with no difference. Even a "sudo mandb -c" looked promising with 6000+ pages added but nothing would display. Finally a "sudo apt --reinstall install groff groff-base" fixed it.
I was close when I tried to install nroff and troff. I kept getting a troff failed message sometime after I did a man. When I went into console mode it would say man ended with code 2 and nroff would be at the end of the long string of commands above it.
I guess I need to do that kernel upgrade to get rid of the flickering and flashing/tearing of the screen. I thought apt upgrade would do that but I read somewhere here that it doesn't update boot or kernel.
RE: found fix for man - MarkHaysHarris777 - 08-25-2017
Nice work !
Thank you.
