Re: Help again with command "man".
Well I finally solved the "man" problem. Thanks to all that replied (esp. to Paul Smith and Ron Rademaker who gave this newbie some great tips on commands to use while installing via floppy). Folks it is possible to install via floppy but, as the manual does say, it is NOT recommended. You have to download man from the debian ftp site or mirror sites, save it onto floppy, transfer it to the linux machine and then install it. Aside from this program, you also need to download and install groff and jgroff (however, when I installed jgroff, it replaced groff ! ). I have no choice right now but to use floppies as the machine I'm using for Debian is an ancient 486 with no cd-rom, no internet capabilities, a whopping 16 megs of ram, and an astounding 268 megs of hd space =P. Debian does run well on it though. I am using a b&w G3 with a high speed connection to download all the files and so far I've kept my sanity. The upswing to all this is I got a chance to actually play around with the commands on Linux, learn how to install basic packages, and get some new life into an old machine. If you want to learn linux via a baptism of fire, do it the way I did. thanks again at
Help again with command "man".
Well I just found out why I can't use the method : apt-get install man-db manpages or all the other versions of that string. The machine running Debian is NOT connected to the internet. 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 ? 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. Thanks at
Please help with command "man"
Hi, I'm a Linux newbie using version 2.2 of Debian GNU/Linux on an old 486 with 16megs of ram and 268 megs of HD space. I just installed Linux and read the tutorial found on-line at the Debian web site. While reading through the tutorial I came across the command "man" and it said to try the command "man -k Postscript" as a demonstration. I typed in the command and I got the message " bash : man : command not found ". I went on IRC to the debian channel and the people there told me to go to logon root and type the command "apt-get install man" or "apt-get install man-db" either one resulted in an error message : " E: couldn't find package man ". Could someone please help me and tell me how do I get the "man" command working or installed into my system. Thank you ! at P.S. I checked the /usr directory and I did find the directory of /man there as well as the subdirectories of /man : /man1 , /man5, and /man8. These three directories had filed that ended in .gz Any help would be appreciated. thanks again
