* perl man pages not working. @ 2012-09-04 20:07 Erwin Waterlander 2012-09-05 1:12 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Erwin Waterlander @ 2012-09-04 20:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Cygwin Mailing List Hi, I have installed the perl man pages via setup.exe, but they don't work: $ man perl No manual entry for perl It seems they are not there, while setup.exe says I have installed perl_manpages version 5.14.2-3. $ ls /usr/share/man/*/perl* ls: cannot access /usr/share/man/*/perl*: No such file or directory Also a reinstall via setup.exe does not help. regards, -- Erwin Waterlander http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: perl man pages not working. 2012-09-04 20:07 perl man pages not working Erwin Waterlander @ 2012-09-05 1:12 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) 2012-09-06 5:58 ` Reini Urban 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) @ 2012-09-05 1:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin On 9/4/2012 4:07 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed the perl man pages via setup.exe, but they don't work: > > $ man perl > No manual entry for perl > > It seems they are not there, while setup.exe says I have installed > perl_manpages version 5.14.2-3. > > $ ls /usr/share/man/*/perl* > ls: cannot access /usr/share/man/*/perl*: No such file or directory > > Also a reinstall via setup.exe does not help. The man pages are there. See the list of those installed here: <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=perl_manpages%2Fperl_manpages-5.14.2-3&grep=perl_manpages> But it does look like there are some key ones missing in 5.14.2 (such as perl.1). -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: perl man pages not working. 2012-09-05 1:12 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) @ 2012-09-06 5:58 ` Reini Urban 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Reini Urban @ 2012-09-06 5:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 9/4/2012 4:07 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote: >> I have installed the perl man pages via setup.exe, but they don't work: >> >> $ man perl >> No manual entry for perl >> >> It seems they are not there, while setup.exe says I have installed >> perl_manpages version 5.14.2-3. >> >> $ ls /usr/share/man/*/perl* >> ls: cannot access /usr/share/man/*/perl*: No such file or directory >> >> Also a reinstall via setup.exe does not help. > > > The man pages are there. See the list of those installed here: > > <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=perl_manpages%2Fperl_manpages-5.14.2-3&grep=perl_manpages> > > But it does look like there are some key ones missing in 5.14.2 (such > as perl.1). Oops, blush. Thanks for the report -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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