Hey guys, i've got the same problem so, could any one tell me which package contains the "man" ?
Rgds KaLeeSan, a new debian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerstin Hoef-Emden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 8:27 PM Subject: Re: Help again with command "man". > > Hi, > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, A. Tuazon wrote: > > > However, when I was installing the OS via floppies only, shouldn't the > > installation have installed "man" for me ? Or do you still have to install > > "man" after you install the system ? > > If you installed from floppies only with no install from CD afterwards > or from internet, you have probably only the base-system installed. So > your computer is running with nothing but the plain OS. Man-db, X11 and > all the other things are still missing. > > > Therefore, could someone please tell me if there is a way to install "man" > > via floppies. I'm using an ancient 486 and it only has a hd and 1.44 floppy > > drive. I'd appreciate any help and thanks again to all those who replied to > > my previous message. > > Hmm, it is hardly possible to do with floppies. The *.debs are not > optimised to fit on a floppy, e.g. kernel-sources are 12 MB or so > large. Do you have a possibility to use a modem or get CDs? The problem > is, that with a plain base-install, there is still quite a bunch of > packages missing which are necessary to fulfill dependencies. Usually > you have to install several additional packages to make one package run. > > Regards, > > Kerstin > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
