Linux 3.8.0-31-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 10 20:03:44 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Hello, my manpages are blank; when I type something like man ls in my terminal it displays a blank page with only the following:

Manual page man(1) line ?/? (END) (press h for help or q to quit)

I already try to uninstall the man packages with both dpkg and apt-get command, check my path and the man config file ... but I obviously missing something; Is anyone can help me to solved this? Thanks.

sudo apt-get --purge remove manpages manpages-dev freebsd-manpages funny-manpages gmt-manpages man2html manpages-posix manpages-posix-dev asr-manpages



sudo apt-get install manpages manpages-dev freebsd-manpages funny-manpages gmt-manpages man2html manpages-posix manpages-posix-dev asr-manpages

which man

/usr/bin/man

echo $PATH

/home/franchin/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/> usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/bin/man

sudo mandb -c

...

Processing manual pages under /usr/local/share/man...

131 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.

5731 manual pages were added.

0 stray cats were added.

cat /etc/manpath.config

magic           magic.mime      mailcap         mailcap.order   manpath.config  

franchin@N53Jq:~$ cat /etc/manpath.config 

# manpath.config

#

# This file is used by the man-db package to configure the man and cat paths.

# It is also used to provide a manpath for those without one by examining

# their PATH environment variable. For details see the manpath(5) man page.

#

# Lines beginning with `#' are comments and are ignored. Any combination of

# tabs or spaces may be used as `whitespace' separators.

#

# There are three mappings allowed in this file:

# --------------------------------------------------------

# MANDATORY_MANPATH         manpath_element

# MANPATH_MAP       path_element    manpath_element

# MANDB_MAP     global_manpath  [relative_catpath]

#---------------------------------------------------------

# every automatically generated MANPATH includes these fields

#

#MANDATORY_MANPATH          /usr/src/pvm3/man

#

MANDATORY_MANPATH           /usr/man

MANDATORY_MANPATH           /usr/share/man

MANDATORY_MANPATH           /usr/local/share/man

#---------------------------------------------------------

# set up PATH to MANPATH mapping

# ie. what man tree holds man pages for what binary directory.

#

#       *PATH*        ->    *MANPATH*

#

MANPATH_MAP /bin            /usr/share/man

MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin        /usr/share/man

MANPATH_MAP /sbin           /usr/share/man

MANPATH_MAP /usr/sbin       /usr/share/man

MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin      /usr/local/man

MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin      /usr/local/share/man

MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/sbin     /usr/local/man

MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/sbin     /usr/local/share/man

MANPATH_MAP /usr/X11R6/bin      /usr/X11R6/man

MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/X11        /usr/X11R6/man

MANPATH_MAP /usr/games      /usr/share/man

MANPATH_MAP /opt/bin        /opt/man

MANPATH_MAP /opt/sbin       /opt/man

#---------------------------------------------------------

# For a manpath element to be treated as a system manpath (as most of those

# above should normally be), it must be mentioned below. Each line may have

# an optional extra string indicating the catpath associated with the

# manpath. If no catpath string is used, the catpath will default to the

# given manpath.

#

# You *must* provide all system manpaths, including manpaths for alternate

# operating systems, locale specific manpaths, and combinations of both, if

# they exist, otherwise the permissions of the user running man/mandb will

# be used to manipulate the manual pages. Also, mandb will not initialise

# the database cache for any manpaths not mentioned below unless explicitly

# requested to do so.

#

# In a per-user configuration file, this directive only controls the

# location of catpaths and the creation of database caches; it has no effect

# on privileges.

#

# Any manpaths that are subdirectories of other manpaths must be mentioned

# *before* the containing manpath. E.g. /usr/man/preformat must be listed

# before /usr/man.

#

#       *MANPATH*     ->    *CATPATH*

#

MANDB_MAP   /usr/man        /var/cache/man/fsstnd

MANDB_MAP   /usr/share/man      /var/cache/man

MANDB_MAP   /usr/local/man      /var/cache/man/oldlocal

MANDB_MAP   /usr/local/share/man    /var/cache/man/local

MANDB_MAP   /usr/X11R6/man      /var/cache/man/X11R6

MANDB_MAP   /opt/man        /var/cache/man/opt

#

#---------------------------------------------------------

# Program definitions.  These are commented out by default as the value

# of the definition is already the default.  To change: uncomment a

# definition and modify it.

#

#DEFINE     pager   pager -s

#DEFINE     cat cat

#DEFINE     tr  tr '255267264327' '055157047170'

#DEFINE     grep    grep

#DEFINE     troff   groff -mandoc

#DEFINE     nroff   nroff -mandoc

#DEFINE     eqn     eqn

#DEFINE     neqn    neqn

#DEFINE     tbl     tbl

#DEFINE     col     col

#DEFINE     vgrind  vgrind

#DEFINE     refer   refer

#DEFINE     grap    grap

#DEFINE     pic     pic -S

#

#DEFINE     compressor  gzip -c7

#---------------------------------------------------------

# Misc definitions: same as program definitions above.

#

#DEFINE     whatis_grep_flags       -i

#DEFINE     apropos_grep_flags      -iEw

#DEFINE     apropos_regex_grep_flags    -iE

#---------------------------------------------------------

# Section names. Manual sections will be searched in the order listed here;

# the default is 1, n, l, 8, 3, 0, 2, 5, 4, 9, 6, 7. Multiple SECTION

# directives may be given for clarity, and will be concatenated together in

# the expected way.

# If a particular extension is not in this list (say, 1mh), it will be

# displayed with the rest of the section it belongs to. The effect of this

# is that you only need to explicitly list extensions if you want to force a

# particular order. Sections with extensions should usually be adjacent to

# their main section (e.g. "1 1mh 8 ...").

#

SECTION     1 n l 8 3 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 5 4 9 6 7

#

#---------------------------------------------------------

# Range of terminal widths permitted when displaying cat pages. If the

# terminal falls outside this range, cat pages will not be created (if

# missing) or displayed.

#

#MINCATWIDTH    80

#MAXCATWIDTH    80

#

# If CATWIDTH is set to a non-zero number, cat pages will always be

# formatted for a terminal of the given width, regardless of the width of

# the terminal actually being used. This should generally be within the

# range set by MINCATWIDTH and MAXCATWIDTH.

#

#CATWIDTH   0

#

#---------------------------------------------------------

# Flags.

# NOCACHE keeps man from creating cat pages.

#NOCACHE