[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/0:~]$ dpkg --status man
Package `man' is not installed and no info is available.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/0:~]# apt-get install man
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Note, selecting man-db instead of man
The following extra packages will be
How can I determine if man is installed and see if all
of the things that man depends on are installed as
well?
try apt-get install man-db to install the man program. it is not
included in the default minimal install, iirc.
pietro.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:41:38AM -0800, icewind wrote:
Hello,
I installed the lastest stable release of debain over
the network, installing a minimal number of packages.
Shouldn't 'man' be part of the base install? When I
type man, the system doesnt find anything.
I believe it *is*
Shouldn't 'man' be part of the base install? When I
type man, the system doesnt find anything.
i had this problem upgrading stable-testing
man-db gets removed and you have to install it
by hand afterwords. make sure you pay attention
to what apt-get says its
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:38:11PM -0500, Jamie Oulman wrote:
i had this problem upgrading stable-testing
man-db gets removed and you have to install it
by hand afterwords. make sure you pay attention
to what apt-get says its going to remove with you
start a
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:06:50PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
stiq:~# man man
man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied
stiq:~#
man cannot write to $TMPDIR (or /tmp if $TMPDIR isn't set). Permissions
should be 1777 on /tmp.
noah
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Andrew D Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a problem with my man pages. For some reason the permissions
are wrong and it can't create a temporary file.
stiq:~# man man
man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied
stiq:~#
That suggests that /tmp, or whatever your $TMPDIR is
On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 02:07:21PM -0500, Scott Ellis wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote:
I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before
I was using the old ones from Bo).
Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says:
sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote:
I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before
I was using the old ones from Bo).
Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says:
sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory
sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute: No
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote:
Hi,
I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before
I was using the old ones from Bo).
Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says:
sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory
sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute:
Less 'set it up' (or rather the less package set it up). This is a
relatively new scheme for handling utilities that can have more than one
version installed but are also used by other programs. Thus, you can
have 'more', 'less', 'muchmore', 'xless', and who knows how many others
installed and
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