Bug 398343

Summary:	man requires a dependency on less, which is no longer part of the Stage 3 install.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	C W Rose <cwr>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description C W Rose 2012-01-10 09:09:43 UTC

man requires a dependency on less, which is no longer part of the Stage 3 install.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install from Stage 3
2. Run eg. man ls
3. Fail
Actual Results:  
farthing / # man ls
Formatting page, please wait...
sh: /usr/bin/less: No such file or directory
Error executing formatting or display command.
System command /bin/bzip2 -c -d /var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.bz2 | /usr/bin/less exited with status 127.
farthing / # 


Expected Results:  
A readable man page

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-01-10 11:44:35 UTC

nah, man works with any PAGER from virtual/pager which is part of world

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 398295 ***

Comment 2 C W Rose 2012-01-11 14:22:11 UTC

So the sequence of commands that I cut and pasted
directly from the shell was wrong?

Will