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Hello,
I tried to install the shell integration after downloading DiffMerge. My problem: I installed the man-page as well as described but when typing "man diffmerge" it still sais "no manual entry". I even tried to do everything as root (not only admin but root).
It is in /usr/share/man/man1 and the ls -al shows
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 2840 12 Aug 17:55 diffmerge.1
I really hope that anyone can help me!
Using man-page under Mac OS X
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 Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:37 am
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:19 am
I'm not sure what the problem is. But to double check I just
re-installed it on my system. As root, I copied diffmerge.man1 to /usr/share/man/man1/diffmerge.1 and then tried a "man diffmerge" and it worked without any problems. If you run "/usr/bin/manpath" is "/usr/share/man" listed ? $ manpath /opt/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man $ which manpath /usr/bin/manpath $ You might try using the "-d" option in man which turns on some debug output. Let me know if you figure it out. jeff |
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 2:26 pm
Hello Jeff,
I figured out that "man" does not work at all at my installation. Consequently, when typing "/usr/bin/manpath" I get nothing at all. Is this just my machine or a Mac thing? When typing "diffmerge -help" everything works fine. I just did not try that before... I work under Mac OS X 10.6.4 Hanno |
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:39 am
This sounds like something messed up on your machine or
maybe just your user account. On my machine /usr/bin/manpath is a symlink to /usr/bin/man and both were installed by the OS. "manpath" should report 3 or 4 system directories. And "man" should be able to show pages for the OS commands. That is, you should be able to do a "man man" and get full info on the "man" command. I'm not sure what could be causing this problem. But you might try "man -M /usr/share/man man" and see if you get something. jeff |
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:48 am
Hello Jeff!
Got that correctly. It shows the manpage of man. In the same way, I get the manual of diffmerge too. The link in the bin folder is there too:
So, that does not seem to be the problem... Do you have any other idea? Hanno Last edited by Eckeneckepenn on Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:51 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:32 am
Sounds like your shell environment is messed up somehow.
Can't say for sure. But see you're setting MANPATH in your .profile or .bashrc and if so take it out and login again. You might also look at some of the /private/etc/man* files mentioned in the manpath man-page (and maybe the permissions on them). jeff |
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:42 am
Couls you please give me more details? I'm not used to it and I do not want to make anything worse...
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Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:37 am
Got it finally!
My $MANPATH variable was set. I found by chance even how it probably happened. I followed those instructions in order to install wine: http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/ There, the Manpath is set and never reset. It seem that deleting that variable should be enough. |
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Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:52 am
Thanks for the update. Glad you got everything working.
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