Re: Need help running man on newly installed Debian system
"Fungame Game" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have recently installed Debian using the instructions on the web site. > (I used a 5 floppy set). Everything seems to work fine. But man is > missing (or so I think). I cannot access the manpages (am i doing it > incorrectly by using man?) and whatis also doesnt work. I have combed > the distributions archive and found nothing as far as man. Does anyone > know what I need to do, or what I am doing wrong. > > Thanks, > Fungame Did you run dselect at least once? The base only includes the realy neccessary packages, but alls the normal packages like man are preselected in dselect. If you start it, set the access, do a update, then a select and just quit that again and the install you should get those. Alternatively: apt-get install man-db May the Source be with you. Mrvn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help running man on newly installed Debian system
Fungame Game wrote: > > I have recently installed Debian using the instructions on the web site. > (I used a 5 floppy set). Everything seems to work fine. But man is > missing (or so I think). I cannot access the manpages (am i doing it > incorrectly by using man?) and whatis also doesnt work. I have combed > the distributions archive and found nothing as far as man. Does anyone > know what I need to do, or what I am doing wrong. > > Thanks, > Fungame > The man program lives in the deb package 'man-db'. You'll probably also want to get the 'manpages' package. IIRC, these aren't part of the base distribution because of their size. -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need help running man on newly installed Debian system
I have recently installed Debian using the instructions on the web site. (I used a 5 floppy set). Everything seems to work fine. But man is missing (or so I think). I cannot access the manpages (am i doing it incorrectly by using man?) and whatis also doesnt work. I have combed the distributions archive and found nothing as far as man. Does anyone know what I need to do, or what I am doing wrong. Thanks, Fungame __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
