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10.5: View the new 'man' pages on upgraded systems
summary of the privious posts:
if you have ugraded form tiger to leopard, the old man-pages are still remain on your system. Follow the the steps to remove the old man-pages. 1. Make a backup of all you man pages:
2. preview of the delete-command (It will only echo the rm -command.)
3. If you are statisfied with the result of (2.) the you can delete all old man pages:
Later you can delete your backup ~/man.tgz or you can restore it with tar xzf ~/man.tgz
10.5: View the new 'man' pages on upgraded systems
This hint appeared to work, however, when I went to delete the saved man pages (man.tgz) I could not the file anywhere.
10.5: View the new 'man' pages on upgraded systems
This worked well for me except that I had to move fink's
tar program out of the way while doing the update so that it used OSX's tar.
Fink's tar gave the following error:
tar cannot update compressed archives ---
10.5: View the new 'man' pages on upgraded systems
Actually I had the same problem as wscody where the man.tgz didn't show up. Turns out the
Now that the man files are all backed up, I want to verify that I indeed have both the old and new manuals. For example, the bash manual should be for bash 3, not 2.05. The following tells me there are 2 bash manuals the bash.1 modified 30-Mar-2005 while the bash.1.gz is from 23-Sep-2007.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 228193 Mar 20 2005 /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1 Then, I did the following sequence, including the removal of the
Now to verify that the bash.1 file is gone.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 70941 Sep 23 20:41 /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz And man now uses the correct page.
/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz --- |
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