Re: where's man ??
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> I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice,
> there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a
> "required" thing...
>
There is at least 'ae' installed and this is documented. At least i knew
this after having read the installation instructions when i installed
Debian 1.1.6 two weeks ago. This is a very easy to understand editor for
the aspiring Debian Linux newbie and a complete limitation and annoyance
for someone who would prefer a 'vi' variant which is not installed at all
up to this point. But i remember to have been completely helpless in my
first steps with Linux one and a half year ago when it came up to edit a
file with 'vi' then...
> another thing... 'man' doesn't seem to exist! Logged in as root, typing
> 'man man' gives "command not found" -- and it's not in /usr/bin.
>
Yes, that's true. At least some man pages are installed but without pager
this is pretty useless. Well, one could read them with 'more' but...
> what gives??
>
In the end after installation? A fine Linux system! I have a smoothly
running system now and i am very pleased because of the packaging system.
Well, there are some hassles but then, why not? Nothing is perfect!
Regards, Paul *8^)
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Paul Seelig pseelig@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de
African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies
Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany
Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/
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