Where did I set that most displays my man pages?
Derek Broughton
derek at pointerstop.ca
Wed Oct 28 14:27:31 UTC 2009
Detlef Lechner wrote:
> James Michael Fultz wrote:
>>
>> Unless overridden by $MANPAGER or $PAGER, I think that man on Ubuntu and
>> Debian defaults to using '/usr/bin/pager' which is a symlink managed by
>> the alternatives system.
>
> This was a very good hint.
> /usr/bin/pager is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/pager.
> /etc/alternatives /pager was a symlink to /bin/less.
> I changed that to:
> /etc/alternatives/pager is a symlink to /usr/bin/most.
You missed the point that it is managed by "alternatives". You really
shouldn't manually change these symlinks (I'm fairly certain future updates
will change them back).
--
derek
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