Re: [tlug] xterm man page screwed up on Debian

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Shimpei" == Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@example.com> writes:

    Shimpei> 	update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

Well, I'll be damned.  I didn't expect this to _ever_ work, I've been
maintaining symlinks by hand forever.

    Shimpei> 2) run
    Shimpei> 	man xterm
    Shimpei> What man page do you get?

xterm(1x)

packages:

un  man            <none>         (no description available)
un  man-browser    <none>         (no description available)
ii  man-db         2.3.20-13      The on-line manual pager
ii  manpages       1.47-8         Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
ii  manpages-dev   1.47-8         Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for devel

ii  eterm          0.9.1-2        Enlightened Terminal Emulator
ii  hanterm        3.3.1p18-6     X terminal emulator with Hangul support
ii  kterm          6.2.0-38       Multi-lingual terminal emulator for X.
ii  xiterm+thai    1.04.cvs200112 x-terminal program with thai languague suppo
ii  xterm          4.1.0-14       X terminal emulator
hn  aterm          <none>         (no description available)
hn  aterm-ml       <none>         (no description available)
hn  cxterm-common  <none>         (no description available)
hn  eterm-ml       <none>         (no description available)
hn  gnome-terminal <none>         (no description available)
hn  wterm          <none>         (no description available)
hn  wterm-ml       <none>         (no description available)
pn  9term          <none>         (no description available)
pn  bogl-bterm     <none>         (no description available)
pn  cxterm-big5    <none>         (no description available)
pn  cxterm-gb      <none>         (no description available)
pn  cxterm-jis     <none>         (no description available)
pn  cxterm-ks      <none>         (no description available)
pn  eterm-backgrou <none>         (no description available)
pn  fte-terminal   <none>         (no description available)
pn  jfbterm        <none>         (no description available)
pn  mindterm       <none>         (no description available)
pn  sensible-xterm <none>         (no description available)
pn  xtermset       <none>         (no description available)
un  hanterm-xf86   <none>         (no description available)
un  x-terminal-emu <none>         (no description available)

    Shimpei> I keep getting the man page for x-terminal-emulator,

Have you tried ripping xterm out by the roots and reinstalling (you
may need to purge to get the alternatives stuff fixed)?  Debian sucks
badly at handling self-generated-fuckeduppednessness.  LARTing is
recommended.

Did you perhaps edit some symlinks by hand?

What do your symlinks say?

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