Re: common commands not working

[Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>]

On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Tim Stevens wrote:

> As a new debian user I was suprised @ how easy the installation of 1.3 went...
> not a hitch. However, when I issue the man command to explore the manual pages
> I get a bad command message. same for apropos. Is this related to the
> Packages and
> the dselect utility.....Please point me in the right direction. 

I believe the man pages are part of the standard installation.  If you 
accept dselect's choices, and run through the install phase, you should 
have the man pages, as well as many other common unix utilities / 
commands.  Note, the installation of the base disk doesn't include the 
man pages.

Brandon


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