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Bug 398343 - man requires a dependency on less, which is no longer part of the Stage 3 install.
Summary: man requires a dependency on less, which is no longer part of the Stage 3 ins...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 398295
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2012-01-10 09:09 UTC by C W Rose
Modified: 2012-01-11 14:22 UTC (History)
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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