Dear alan, You need to run dselect to grab some more packages (do it first with just the auto-selected ones, then get some you want on a second run) - man isn't included in the base system for space reasons. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/