Manpages fix on KDE neon?

[acruhl]

The man pages are not working as of now with an up to date KDE neon installation. 

Does anyone know how to fix it? I searched and found some old posts about nroff or troff missing, but this is not the case anymore.

Thanks

[evilbunny]

The man pages are not working as of now with an up to date KDE neon installation. 

Does anyone know how to fix it?

Is man-db installed?

[acruhl]

The man pages are not working as of now with an up to date KDE neon installation. 

Does anyone know how to fix it?

Is man-db installed?

Yes:

user@pinebook:~$ dpkg --list man-db
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  man-db         2.8.3-2ubunt arm64        on-line manual pager

[evilbunny]

So what errors are you seeing?

[cvmiller]

Seems to be a well known problem, with not a lot of good solutions:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor...bug=889617

[Surehand53]

One workaround has been described in this thread https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6443&page=5 by rookieone.

Code:

sudo apt install apparmor-utils
sudo aa-disable /usr/bin/man

It worked for me.

[acruhl]

One workaround has been described in this thread https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6443&page=5 by rookieone.

Code:

sudo apt install apparmor-utils
sudo aa-disable /usr/bin/man

It worked for me.

I attached a picture of the error. 

I'll try that fix.

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Wow, worked. I have no idea what apparmor is or why I need it. I'll research it.

[cvmiller]

Apparmor is good if you need it, and a pain if you don't. If you look run 'sudo aa-status' you can see all the apps that are "protected" by apparmor. If you move /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.man to someplace else, like /root, and restart the Pinebook, man pages will work (since man is no longer protected).

You can also try to disable apparmor, but just doing that didn't work for me.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppArmor