cannot read manpages

[Gerald Dachs]

Quoting Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it>:

> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 astraljava at kapsi.fi's cat, walking on the  
>  keyboard,
> wrote:
>> Isn't that usually a symlink to `less` or `more`, or what have you? Maybe
>> via /etc/alternatives. In this case it would mean that you don't have that
>> symlink set, so try first:
>>
>> $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/pager
>>
>> ...and if that's not set either, then I guess you can do:
>>
>> $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/less /usr/bin/pager
>
> I didn't know about the alternatives directory, and that fixed the problem. I
> tried also the apt-file search, as suggested by Gerald, but it didn't return
> anything.

Yes, f it is a symlink that is not part of a package, but is generated during
post install of a package it will not show up with apt-file, sorry.

Gerald

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