On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:36:04AM +1100, Rob B wrote: > Further to my original posting, it would appear that the latest round of > updates to my system have broken quite a few things. > man-db_2.3.16-1.1_alpha.deb now refuses to show any "real" man pages: > > Typing man pam (for example) gives: > > Reformatting pam(8), please wait... > sh: ../debian/tmp/usr/bin/zsoelim: No such file or directoy > > How do I back out updates that I made via apt-get? Better still, how do I > get man giving me man pages?
I worked around it by recompiling it: apt-get --compile source man-db, and then doing a dpkg -i on the resulting .deb file. I had to do a hold in dselect as well, because otherwise it wants to re-"upgrade" the package. Gvim is similarly misbuilt... I don't know the right way to ask for a rebuild of a package. Jon Leonard
