Re: makewhatis

[jlarkin@aij.st.hmc.edu (John T. Larkin)]

> Is there supposed to be a "makewhatis" somewhere in the Debian
> distribution?  I keep getting:
> apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
> apropos: /usr/man/whatis: No such file or directory
> apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
> apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No such file or directory

Look at mandb.  Try reading the mandb man page.  mandb -c will re-create
the man whatis database from the installed man pages.

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