Hello,
I don't know what I've done to cause this issue but now I must be sudo to properly read manpages. What I mean here is that when I call for any manpage i get a page that shows line numbers and garbage characters that reminds me of syntax highlighting etc.
I realized this situation about a month ago and thought I had somehow damaged the manpages but my attempts to correct this problem produced no joy. Today, I accidentally discovered that running a manpage as sudo produced a normally formatted and readable manpage. I've checked the various PATHS and file OWNERSHIP:GROUP (root:root) and all seems to be fine.
Any ideas?
BTW, I'm running a HP ENVY box with Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Clean installation about two months ago after recovering from hard-drive crash.
Machine and applications are up-to-date with security patches and everything else that I'm aware of.
Thanks,
Greg
I don't know what I've done to cause this issue but now I must be sudo to properly read manpages. What I mean here is that when I call for any manpage i get a page that shows line numbers and garbage characters that reminds me of syntax highlighting etc.
I realized this situation about a month ago and thought I had somehow damaged the manpages but my attempts to correct this problem produced no joy. Today, I accidentally discovered that running a manpage as sudo produced a normally formatted and readable manpage. I've checked the various PATHS and file OWNERSHIP:GROUP (root:root) and all seems to be fine.
Any ideas?
BTW, I'm running a HP ENVY box with Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Clean installation about two months ago after recovering from hard-drive crash.
Machine and applications are up-to-date with security patches and everything else that I'm aware of.
Thanks,
Greg