xman is looking for folowing executables, which should be installed by groff: geqn - should be -s link to eqn gtbl - should be -s link to tbl zsoelim - (I think) should be -s link to soelim when I created the above links xman started to work, but still displayed "Xman Warning: Something went wrong in retrieving the uncompressed manual page try cleaning up /tmp". The manual page looked ok.