Re: Help need on man pages

[H C Pumphrey <hcp@met.ed.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote:

> Plase could you give the the files I have to download to be able to install
> linux man  pages so I can get help by typing say 
> "man  rm"  or "man  cp"


You need the manpages  package (manpages_1.19-1.deb) , 
         the man-db    package (man-db_2.3.10-65.deb),
         the libc6     package (libc6_2.0.7t-1.deb), [1]
         the libdb2    package (libdb2_2.3.16-7.deb),
         the groff     package (groff_1.11a-2.deb),
  and    the libg++272 package (libg++272_2.7.2.8-0.1.deb)

Now you begin to see why the slightly counter-intuitive decision to not
have the man pages in the base distribution was taken: it would have made
it bigger by several floppies.

Hugh

[1] libc6 is part of the base system so you probably already have it.


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