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Re: Content problem at http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/help.html



Hi Richard,

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 07:59:15AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I have two problems:
> 1. Under "Releases" it states "You may download the manpages as
> gzip'd tar
>    archive for private use. A tarball is usually ~100MB big."
> 
>    I attempted to download the the tarball for Squeeze. I paused it
> at 200MB
>    as I am limited to 1 GB/month before my downloads are throttled.
>    How large is the tarball?

I don't know.  I can confirm it's larger than 69M.

> 2. Once I have the tarball I will copy it to a flash drive for
> installation
>    to my Debian machine which physically does *NOT* have internet
> connectivity.
>    There are no instructions for installation.

The .tar.gz contains files like

-rw-r--r-- 1140/803       1407 2010-11-11 17:22 squeeze/usr/share/man/de/man4/intro.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1140/803       7127 2010-05-11 01:52 squeeze/usr/share/man/de/man8/mount.davfs.8.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1140/803       1950 2010-07-28 23:45 squeeze/usr/share/man/it/man6/kpat.6.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1140/803       2967 2010-08-19 22:44 squeeze/usr/share/man/man4/utopia.4freebsd.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1140/803       5790 2010-08-09 01:11 squeeze/usr/share/man/man6/cube.6.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1140/803       6701 2009-10-29 14:35 squeeze/usr/share/man/tr/man5/lilo.conf.5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1140/803       5912 2010-08-18 21:18 squeeze/usr/share/man/zhtw/man3/Jifty::Manual::JavaScript.3pm.gz

It looks like: all manpages for all available packages in all available
languages.  That's a lot, and a lot of it you likely will never need.

You can just untar the archive and manually set your $MANPATH to the directory
where you've unpacked it.  See also man(1), manpath(5) and /etc/manpath.config
.

Bye,

Joost



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