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Revision as of 00:48, 6 February 2019

As of NixOS 18.09, apropos (and likely also whatis) does not find anything when run. This is because the Apropos database is not generated automatically.

To generate it manually (and again to update it when new software is installed), run:

su -l root -c mandb


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