On 2020-06-02 at 09:05, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/01/2020 05:02 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 06/01/2020 04:02 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: >>> apt show debian-goodies >>> ... >>> debman - Easily view man pages from a binary .deb without extracting >>> [man, apt* (via debget)] >>> >>> So... ~$ dman packagename # will fetch the manpages as though they >>> were local. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Ralph >> >> >> Thank you. Looks interesting. >> 1st didn't work even after installing debian-goodies. >> Suspect operator. Leaving now. will pursue in morning. > Copy and paste this morning from MATE terminal >> richard@defaultinstall:~$ dman gforth >> bash: dman: command not found >> richard@defaultinstall:~$ debman gforth >> Usage: debman [options] [-- man(1) options] <man page name> ... >> >> Options should be exactly one of: >> -f package.deb read pages from package.deb archive >> -p package download .deb for package and read pages >> from there >> richard@defaultinstall:~$ debman -p gforth >> Usage: debman [options] [-- man(1) options] <man page name> ... >> >> Options should be exactly one of: >> -f package.deb read pages from package.deb archive >> -p package download .deb for package and read pages >> from there >> richard@defaultinstall:~$ debman -f gforth.deb >> Usage: debman [options] [-- man(1) options] <man page name> ... >> >> Options should be exactly one of: >> -f package.deb read pages from package.deb archive >> -p package download .deb for package and read pages >> from there >> richard@defaultinstall:~$ > > I have verified that both > https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/gforth/gforth.1.en.html > and > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/gforth/gforth.1.en.html > > Help please. I've dug into this, and while I thought at first there was a bug here myself, I've figured it out. The command lines you're giving are specifying the package name, but not the name of the man page. The "<man page name>" argument at the end of the usage section is not optional. For example, $ debman -p gforth vmgen works fine for me. If you need to find out the name of the actual man page (since, e.g., it isn't intuitively obvious that gforth will contain a man page for the name 'vmgen'), something like $ apt-file show gforth | grep /man/ ought to do it; just drop the leading path (up through the final '/') and the trailing ".X.gz" (where X is a number) from each filename, and it should be a valid man-page argument to debman. (I'm not sure what it will do if there's a package which installs two man pages with the same name but different sections, because I haven't yet found any examples of packages which do that.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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