Problems installing man-db

[Shaddy Baddah]

Hi,

On 19/06/14 22:44, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>  > Hmmm...well, that's not good. Can you run /usr/bin/mandb -c yourself
>  > from the command line? It will take a while and may generate several
>  > warnings, such as what you see above.
>
> I did this:
>
> $ /usr/bin/mandb -c
>
> and it printed:
>
<snip/>

>
> and after 3 hours is still there... May we say it is hanging? or,
> really, the command you suggested take all this time and more?

I had a Cygwin install/update hang on man-db install, waiting on this
command. I had to kill the install. On the subsequent install, I
selected Reinstall, and it installed smoothly.

Sounds like there is a little bit of ironing out needed for the new
package.

-- 
Regards,
Shaddy

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