newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 16, 2008, at 19:08, Matt wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Jan 16, 2008, at 18:44, Matt wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can read its manpage to see if it's really the software you  
>>>> want.
>>>>
>>>> After you install ppmtomd, type
>>>>
>>>> 	man ppmtomd
>>>
>>> I have looked at the man pages by opening ppmtomd.man in the  
>>> original source download.  I haven't been able to run man on any  
>>> software I have downloaded through macports.  Do I still have  
>>> something wrong with my macports install?
>>
>> If typing "man ppmtomd" does not show you the ppmtomd manpage, and  
>> ppmtomd is installed, then yes, something is wrong.
>>
>> What OS version are you on, and what is the value of your MANPATH  
>> environment variable?
>>
>> I'm on Tiger, and my MANPATH is empty, and it works fine.
>
> I'm on leopard.
>
> My MANPATH is:
>
> MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man
>
> I assume I need to add :/opt/local/share/man to it... should it  
> have done this automaticly?
>
> or should I delete everything from MANPATH as you say yours is  
> empty....

Leopard does it differently, again, as usual. :( But one way to make  
it work is to put /opt/local/share/man into MANPATH, yes.