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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