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Chris | 21 Jun 03:24

Reading man pages

I know I can read them from a terminal however, previously when I was
running KDE I could read them from Konqueror using man:<name>, is there
a way to do this in Gnome with Nautilus or some such app?

Chris

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Peter Gordon | 21 Jun 10:34

Re: Reading man pages

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On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:24 -0500, Chris wrote:
> I know I can read them from a terminal however, previously when I was
> running KDE I could read them from Konqueror using man:<name>, is there
> a way to do this in Gnome with Nautilus or some such app?


If you have Yelp installed, you can navigate to "man:<name>" from within
it. Alternatively, you can browse to it directly via running "yelp
man:<name>" from a terminal prompt or the "Run Application" dialog.

Hope that helps.
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Chris | 21 Jun 15:15

Re: Reading man pages

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On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 01:34 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:24 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > I know I can read them from a terminal however, previously when I was
> > running KDE I could read them from Konqueror using man:<name>, is there
> > a way to do this in Gnome with Nautilus or some such app?
> 
> If you have Yelp installed, you can navigate to "man:<name>" from within
> it. Alternatively, you can browse to it directly via running "yelp
> man:<name>" from a terminal prompt or the "Run Application" dialog.
> 
> Hope that helps.

Thanks Peter, trying to install Yelp this morning via urpmi and I see:

The following package cannot be installed because it depends on packages
that are older than the installed ones:
yelp-2.26.0-2.1mdv2009.1

I'm not sure where to go from here. What is the easiest way to convert a
manpage to a postscript file so that I can use ps2pdf? I 'used' to use
IIRC for instance "man tmpwatch > tmpwatch.ps then run ps2pdf but that
no longer seems to work correctly.

Chris

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Shaun McCance | 22 Jun 07:03
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Re: Reading man pages

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On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 08:15 -0500, Chris wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 01:34 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:24 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > > I know I can read them from a terminal however, previously when I was
> > > running KDE I could read them from Konqueror using man:<name>, is there
> > > a way to do this in Gnome with Nautilus or some such app?
> > 
> > If you have Yelp installed, you can navigate to "man:<name>" from within
> > it. Alternatively, you can browse to it directly via running "yelp
> > man:<name>" from a terminal prompt or the "Run Application" dialog.
> > 
> > Hope that helps.
> Thanks Peter, trying to install Yelp this morning via urpmi and I see:
> 
> The following package cannot be installed because it depends on packages
> that are older than the installed ones:
> yelp-2.26.0-2.1mdv2009.1


Yelp is the help viewer in Gnome.  It should be included
in any default installation of Gnome.  Are you sure you
don't already have it?

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