Apropos: Difference between revisions

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-As of NixOS 18.09, <code>apropos</code> (and likely also <code>whatis</code>) does not find anything when run. This is because the Apropos database is not generated automatically.
+By default as of NixOS 21.05, <code>apropos</code>, <code>whatis</code> and <code>man -k</code> do not find anything when run. To enable automatically building the man page index caches, you can set:
-To generate it manually (and again to update it when new software is installed), run:
+<syntaxhighlight lang=nix>
-<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
+documentation.man.generateCaches = true;
-sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/man/nixos
-sudo mandb
 </syntaxhighlight>
-For more information, see:
-* {{issue|14472|Make NixOS module to update apropos database}}
-* {{pull|18521|mandb: fix apropos}}