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how to change man pages from machine readable back to human readable ?

Asked by Edward D. Dowling IV, Esq.

when I upgraded from Ubuntu Karmic Koal to Lucid Lynx the man pages in help menu are in machine language ( 1, 0 ) not human readable text. How do I change it back /

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Sounds like a regression bug to me

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Edward D. Dowling IV, Esq. (edward-dowling-iv-esq) said : 		#2

I am new to Linux, Does regression error mean problem occured becuse of updating to Lucid, and is there anything I can do to restore man pages in english?

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Allen (allenlitchfield) said : 		#3

maybe try doing

man -h ()

where instead of () you put your page to be manned. i.e iwconfig,less...ectt.ect

maybe that'll work for now.

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Best Allen (allenlitchfield) said : 		#4

maybe try doing

man -h ()

where instead of () you put your page to be manned. i.e iwconfig,less...ectt.ect

maybe that'll work for now.

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Edward D. Dowling IV, Esq. (edward-dowling-iv-esq) said : 		#5

Thanks Allen, that solved my question.