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winotree

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2010-03-26

Posts: 548

man pages in color

The man pages are informative but boring, at least color-wise.  Here is how you can change that using the  package most which is in the repositories.

This is, I think, the easy way http://geekozoid.blogspot.com/2008/06/h … color.html

and this is the way I was doing it beforehand, which goes into a bit more detail than cut-and-paste.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … r+color+#5

Regardless these two sources reference Ubuntu they both work on my CrunchBang Statler 10. 

anonymous

The Mystery Member

From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 8,897

Re: man pages in color

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … man-pages/

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winotree

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2010-03-26

Posts: 548

Re: man pages in color

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … man-pages/

OK.  I didn't see that -- please feel free to delete this thread.