Where did I set that most displays my man pages?

Detlef Lechner Detlef.Lechner at gmx.net
Wed Oct 28 17:15:29 UTC 2009


Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.

> You missed the point that it is managed by "alternatives".  

Unfortunately, yes.

> You really 
> shouldn't manually change these symlinks (I'm fairly certain future updates 
> will change them back).

I have corrected that according to procedure outlined by James Michael
Fultz.

Thank you very much indeed.

Detlef





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