Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 22:00:45 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg question .... Message-ID: <53E19A5D.1000109@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140805211310.GA77763@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <53E0D2B7.9060402@hiwaay.net> <20140805131910.GA72939@slackbox.erewhon.home> <53E0E281.9030306@hiwaay.net> <20140805211310.GA77763@slackbox.erewhon.home>
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On 08/05/14 16:13, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 08:56:17AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> OK, very well. I just installed XFCE, rxvt, & samba 3.6, When I do an
>> 'apropos xfce', is says 'xfce: nothing appropriate' .... I did a
>> 'makewhatis -av' & still nothing .... surely there are some man pages ?!?!?!
> Odd. If you look at /etc/man.conf, does it contain the following line?
>
> MANPATH /usr/local/man
No ....
>
> You did run makewhatis as root, right?
Yes ....
> And there are xfce manpages in /usr/local/man, yes?
No ....
>
>
> At the first glance though, XFCE doesn't seem to have all that many manpages;
>
> :~> find /usr/ports/ -type d -name '*xfce*' -exec grep -H 'man/man.*\.[1-9]\.gz' \{\}/pkg-plist \;
> /usr/ports/x11/xfce4-screenshooter-plugin/pkg-plist:man/man1/xfce4-screenshooter.1.gz
> /usr/ports/x11/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/pkg-plist:man/man1/xfce4-popup-whiskermenu.1.gz
> /usr/ports/x11/xfce4-terminal/pkg-plist:man/man1/xfce4-terminal.1.gz
> /usr/ports/sysutils/xfce4-power-manager/pkg-plist:man/man1/xfce4-power-manager.1.gz
> /usr/ports/sysutils/xfce4-power-manager/pkg-plist:man/man1/xfce4-power-manager-settings.1.gz
> /usr/ports/textproc/xfce4-dict-plugin/pkg-plist:man/man1/xfce4-dict.1.gz
> /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4-session/pkg-plist:man/man1/xfce4-session-logout.1.gz
> /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4-session/pkg-plist:man/man1/xfce4-session.1.gz
> /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4-desktop/pkg-plist:man/man1/xfdesktop.1.gz
> /usr/ports/audio/xfce4-mixer/pkg-plist:man/man1/xfce4-mixer.1.gz
> /usr/ports/deskutils/xfce4-notifyd/pkg-plist:man/man1/xfce4-notifyd-config.1.gz
>
> (Of course this only found those ports that have a pkg-plist.)
>
> Roland
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