Re: Help need on man pages
H C Pumphrey wrote:
>
> 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.
>
To get some help before you install the man pages, you can try, for
example,
rm --help
Regards,
ST
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