Re: Make not installing man pages

2012-03-10 Thread Sian Mountbatten
directory. Pasting "installing man pages with make" into google brings up some interesting results, and that's just on the first page! Do you know about debhelper and dev-scripts? Also, debian-mentors would be a better list for questions relating to Debian package maintenance.

Re: Make not installing man pages

2012-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
ing "installing man pages with make" into google brings up some interesting results, and that's just on the first page! Do you know about debhelper and dev-scripts? Also, debian-mentors would be a better list for questions relating to Debian package maintenance. -- "Religion is

Make not installing man pages

2012-03-09 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Hi All. I maintain a Debian package. There are two documents (man pages) in a sub-directory. Here is the Makefile which should be installing the two manpages into the /usr/share/man/man1 directory. -- #!/usr/bin/make # #-- Documentation sources --- ctrans_doc := compl.t

Re: Installing Man Pages

1999-02-09 Thread John Galt
You have just inadvertantly opened an ongoing can of worms. The answer to your query is "dpkg -i *.deb". Now as to the wisdom of leaving one of the ten most used commands in almost every flavor of unix out of the base system: whatever logic was used on this one escapes me, and the ongoing threa

Re: Installing Man Pages

1999-02-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Bal K. Paudyal" wrote: > > Hi Friends, > > I downloaded man pages file from the net which has "*.deb" format. How can > I install this file to the Debian base? Should I copy is somewhere, or > something like that? > > Currently my Linux does not recognize "man ls" or "man fdformat" etc. > comm

Re: Installing Man Pages

1999-02-09 Thread MallarJ
Just type in: dpkg -i -Jay

Installing Man Pages

1999-02-09 Thread Bal K. Paudyal
Hi Friends, I downloaded man pages file from the net which has "*.deb" format. How can I install this file to the Debian base? Should I copy is somewhere, or something like that? Currently my Linux does not recognize "man ls" or "man fdformat" etc. commands. Thank you!

Re: FW: Problems installing man pages

1997-08-13 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, STEVENS, TIM S. wrote: find the man-db*.deb file. Then run dpkg -i man-db*.deb to manually install the man-db package. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PRO

FW: Problems installing man pages

1997-08-13 Thread STEVENS, TIM S.
-Original Message- From: STEVENS, TIM S. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 1997 10:42 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problems installing man pages Hello world, I just finished a first time install of Debian 1.3 and ran dselect...it seemed to

Problems installing man pages

1997-08-13 Thread STEVENS, TIM S.
Hello world, I just finished a first time install of Debian 1.3 and ran dselect...it seemed to install the basic commands and Utilswent back to install the man pages, dselect tells me man-db is not installed, but IS marked to be installed, when I execute the install option I get a messag