apropos returning same item twice

[Mike Clarke]

On Sunday 26 September 2010, Steven Friedrich wrote:

> > > > Another check is that the output of manpath(1) doesn't
> > > > include /usr/X11R6/man.
> > >
> > > manpath
> > > /usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/kde4/man:/usr/share/open
> > >ssl/man:
> > > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/man:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/perl/
> > >man
> >
> > Ok. There's also:
> >
> >         %man -a -w mysql
> >
> > to see the origins of the multiple man pages, although it seems
> > that you may have already confirmed the /usr/X11R6 path connection.
> >
> > >From what you've presented so far I'd say it's looking like a
> > > problem
>
> man -a -w mysql
> /usr/local/man/man1/mysql.1.gz
> /usr/X11R6/man/man1/mysql.1.gz

Same here - until I realised that I still had /usr/X11R6/bin in $PATH, 
left over from the days before /usr/X11R6 was a link to /usr/local. 
Removing /usr/X11R6/bin from $PATH fixed it for me. According to the 
man page for manpath it "tries to determine the user's manpath from a 
set of system defaults and the user's PATH".

-- 
Mike Clarke