man pages malformatted [SOLVED]

Martux · Veteran Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 1917

Hi!
I just found out that my system couldn't display man pages anymore. Less was missing.
No big deal, I emerged less BUT now the man pages are badly malformatted with a lot of "esc" sign in it. WTF?
And why did portage tell me that "less" is part of my system profile when it wasn't even installed before? :lol:

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eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:03 am Post subject:

Make sure your /etc/profile.env is up to date (did you dispatch-conf or etc-update?)

In any case you need the variable "LESS" to contain '-R' for less to interpret esc- ANSI color codes (ugly hack, but probably no uglier than backspace bolds).

As for the dependencies I think virtual/pager probably had something to do with it. Seems you need either less, more, most, util-linux, lv, or vim pager installed, have any of those still installed? (I install 'less' on every machine... haven't tried without it...)

Still weird that it broke... it was working?
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Martux · Veteran Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 1917

Hello!
Yes, it was working. Well, with your hint I found out about "eselect pager" which was not set. I set it to "less" and voila, it works

Less was uninstalled by emerge --depclean some time ago, no idea why.
Well, it is working again now, thanks!
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