[plug] apropos under Mandrake

[Alan Graham]

Have you tried rebuilding the whatis database?  on red hat, the command is
/usr/sbin/makewhatis

Luck

Alan

On Tue, 08 May 2001, Kevin Shackleton wrote:
> I installed a Mandrake 7.2 and find there's a problem with
> whatis/apropos.  makewhatis takes a poofteenth of a second to run (on a
> Celeron that's a worry) and appears to make very small database, because
> apropos knows practically nothing about anything.
> 
> A quick search around the man pages & errata on Mandrake don't show an
> obvious problem, but I guess it's because a man path isn't included
> somewhere.
> 
> Anyone up to speed on this problem?
> 
> K.