How to use portmanager/portmaster?

[Ricardo Jesus]

Da Rock wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 23:33 +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote:
>> Am Samstag 28 Februar 2009 22:39:26 schrieb Roland Smith:
>>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote:
>>>> Am Samstag 28 Februar 2009 21:42:35 schrieb Roland Smith:
>>>>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:49:16PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote:
>>>>>> Hi, list!
>>>>>> I have a problem using the above mentioned programs because
>>>>>> there doesn't seem to be a manpage installed. Can anybody give
>>>>>> me a clue on how to get help?
>>>>> Both do have manpages. What kind of error do you get when you try
>>>>> e.g. 'man portmaster'? It might be that your manual pages setup
>>>>> is broken.
>>>> I get the message "No manual entry for portmaster", but using your
>>>> command I can read it. "man man" e. g. works perfectly.
>>> That sounds to me that the configuration for the man command is
>>> broken. If you give the 'manpath' command, does the output include
>>> /usr/local/man? If not, add the following lines to
>>> /etc/manpath.config:
>>>
>>> OPTIONAL_MANPATH        /usr/local/man
>>> MANPATH_MAP     /usr/local/bin          /usr/local/man
>>>
>>> Roland
>> "manpath" does show correct settings AFAIK meaning that the answer to 
>> your question is "yes".
>>
>> Frank
>>
> 
> Try a rehash.
> 
> $ rehash
> 
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Do a Da Rock said.

Do notice that both portmaster and portmanager are third party 
applications and need to be installed.

cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/; make install clean; rehash
cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmanager/; make install clean; rehash