Re: What update left mandb scrambled?

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On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 00:57 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
> This was odd,
> 
>  $ apropos memcmp
> memcmp: nothing appropriate.
> 
>  In fact, no man pages were available (checked 2 arch installs). I
> ended up
> having to rebuild the database with 'mandb' and now all is well.
> 
>  My question is -- what did this? It must have occurred in the last
> couple of
> days.
> 
Hey,

Like Edvinas said you need to enable `man-db.timer`. You can also run `sudo mandb` manually.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Man_page#Searching_manuals

Filipe Laíns
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