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Old 12-21-2022, 01:16 PM   #1
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Hello everyone!

Recently I just receive my new PW5 (bought on Amazon US on CM) and have successfully jailbroken it. After installing the necessary packages and kterm, I also installed `coreutils` package. However, when I tried to run command "man ...", it always output "no manual entry of ...". I have copied the whole "coreutils" package which includes manpages inside the directory `/usr/share/man/man1/`

Is there anything that I should configure?

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Old 12-21-2022, 01:29 PM   #2
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Which specific coreutils package and how did you install it?

Please attach a directory listing of /usr/share/man/man1
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Old 12-21-2022, 01:56 PM   #3
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Which specific coreutils package and how did you install it?

Please attach a directory listing of /usr/share/man/man1
It's the one from here. I just extracted the package and copy the files to the specified directories.

Here is the directory listing of `/usr/share/man/man1`.
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Is the MANPATH environment variable set?

If not, you need to do:
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MANPATH=/usr/share/man

I just tried this and it did not work.
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Old 12-21-2022, 07:53 PM   #5
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Is the MANPATH environment variable set?

If not, you need to do:
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MANPATH=/usr/share/man

I just tried this and it did not work.
Same as me. `MANPATH` is indeed not set initially. But after setting it and trying `man cp`, now it output
Code:
sh: nroff not found
Which indeed is missing from the Kindle.
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Old 12-21-2022, 08:38 PM   #6
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Same as me. `MANPATH` is indeed not set initially. But after setting it and trying `man cp`, now it output
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sh: nroff not found
Which indeed is missing from the Kindle.
You are getting further than me. I get "no manual entry for 'ls'" even with MANPATH set.
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Old 12-22-2022, 03:23 AM   #7
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Is that so Maybe there is no `ls` manpage in your specified directory?

Then again, if the root cause is this `nroff`package, we need to compile it ourselves with Kindle target (idk, is it arm?). But it requires (lot) of effort imo.

So for now, I will stop the investigation here

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I decided to try bash. Now I get:
Code:
[root@kindle root]# man ls
sh: gtbl: not found
sh: nroff: not found
So gtbl missing as well as nroff.
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I decided to try bash. Now I get:
Code:
[root@kindle root]# man ls
sh: gtbl: not found
sh: nroff: not found
So gtbl missing as well as nroff.
You might want to try ldd for a list of libraries that are needed and do so with any libraries you add from a compatible repository. That is how I got sox running.

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