[plug] apropos under Mandrake

[Alan Graham]

Sorry, sorry sorry, didn't read your problem fully *slaps wrist*

:-(
On Wed, 09 May 2001, Alan Graham wrote:
> 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.