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Where does OS X store its man pages?
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For some strange reason I don't have any man pages on my PowerBook. For example, when I do 'man ls' I just get the message 'No manual entry for ls'. On my g/f's PowerBook with the exact same OS X version (10.4.3) the man pages are fine. I was wondering if I could just copy over a file or folder that holds the man page information, but I couldn't find anything that looked like it. Can somebody here tell me what file or folder I have to copy over to get my man pages back? I'd really prefer to do it this way that reinstalling the entire OS just to get a few man pages back...
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They seem to primarily be in [FONT="Courier New"]/usr/share/man/[/FONT] and [FONT="Courier New"]/usr/local/man/[/FONT]. People in the Unix forum might be able to tell you if you need to do anything more important than just cp -R them over.
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Thanks. I'll take it over there.
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You should try:
sudo /usr/libexec/makewhatis
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mac:~ simon$ sudo /usr/libexec/makewhatis
makewhatis: : No such file or directory
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Originally Posted by Simon
mac:~ simon$ sudo /usr/libexec/makewhatis
makewhatis: : No such file or directory
Well I've never heard of `makewhatis` but I've got one in /usr/libexec/ (Mac OS X 10.4.3). 
Similar to the $PATH environment variable, used by the shell to search for executable programs, `man` uses $MANPATH to find man pages... This is all figured out internally through some system configs and a few other magic shell variables, so I never even bother with setting a $MANPATH. Your culprit may be a $MANPATH that is limiting where `man` is looking.
Check out your $MANPATH and see if this could be the case. My user's is showing as empty:
If you get a result other than that, then issue an `unset MANPATH` and try to view the manpage again...
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My manpath was set to some garbage like /usr/lib:/usr/x11R6. As soon as I did a MANPATH='' everything was back to normal. Unfortunately everytime I opened a new bash shell window I got the bad manpath back. So I added the MANPATH='' statement to my .bashrc. Now everything is fine. Thanks. 
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