newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

[Matt]

Hooray!  I finally got my printer working!  Ryan, your help compiling  
ppmtomd was a big step.

If anyone is curious, I typed up a complete list of the steps that I  
needed to take to get the printer working here:

http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?19,4245,4315#msg-4315

Hopefully anyone else trying do get an alps printer working on and  
intel mac will find it.

Thanks for all your help!

-Matt

On Jan 16, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 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.
>