H C Pumphrey wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote: > > > Plase could you give the the files I have to download to be able to install > > linux man pages so I can get help by typing say > > "man rm" or "man cp" > > You need the manpages package (manpages_1.19-1.deb) , > the man-db package (man-db_2.3.10-65.deb), > the libc6 package (libc6_2.0.7t-1.deb), [1] > the libdb2 package (libdb2_2.3.16-7.deb), > the groff package (groff_1.11a-2.deb), > and the libg++272 package (libg++272_2.7.2.8-0.1.deb) > > Now you begin to see why the slightly counter-intuitive decision to not > have the man pages in the base distribution was taken: it would have made > it bigger by several floppies. >
To get some help before you install the man pages, you can try, for example, rm --help Regards, ST --