From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: The configuration file /etc/man.config which comes with man from RH 8 uses the flag "-c" to nroff. This flag was introduced in version 1.18 of groff, but there is no "Requires" entry saying this version is needed. (It does require groff, but no particular version.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.5j-11 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install "man" from RH8 on an older system: uebn> rpm -q man groff man-1.5j-11 groff-1.17.2-7.0.2 2.Try to look at a manpage uebn> man man /usr/bin/nroff: invalid option -c
fixed in man-1.5j-15
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-134.html