texlive 2008 man pages

[PGScooter]

Hi,

The command man pdflatex does not work. I added the path to my PATH environment variable so the commands are recognized, but I did not find any information on how to install/find the man pages.

Thanks!

[meborc]

hmm... i installed texlive packages and i have man latex, pdflatex, pdfcslatex etc...

can't help you... but why install man pages anyway? they are not much of a help... a quik google will help more than man pages

[PGScooter]

hi meborc,

I often work without internet available. Also, it makes me think something else could be wrong with my tex installation.

[meborc]

try installing the "texlive" package from synaptic

[unutbu]

The pdflatex manpage is part of the texlive-base-bin package:

% locate pdflatex | grep man
/usr/share/man/man1/pdflatex.1.gz
% dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man1/pdflatex.1.gz
texlive-base-bin: /usr/share/man/man1/pdflatex.1.gz

[PGScooter]

meborc and unutbu, thank you for your help!

I searched for pdflatex and found a man file. Then, I added that path to the path that the man command searches.

see man man and man manpath

In my case, I put the following lines in my .bashrc:
MANPATH=":/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/doc/man/"
export MANPATH