Colourful manpages

By | 2 Feb 2009
  1. Install the most pageviewer: (or click here: most)
    sudo aptitude install most
  2. Reconfigure the system to use most instead of less for paging:
    sudo update-alternatives --config pager

After that, manpages will appear more colourful.

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