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Re: man problem



In a message dated 12/8/98 12:59:49 AM Central Standard Time,
garman@crh3019.urh.uiuc.edu writes:

> My problem with man is as follows: say I type "man <something>," I get 
>  the following error:
>  
>  man: can't set effective uid: Operation not permitted
>  
>  Surely this isn't too bad, eh?
>  


Nope, not too bad at all, you just need to install the man-db (and maybe
manpages) packages.  Also, get the info package.  

My question - why doesn't that come with the base install?  You'd think that
would be a standard feature....

-Jay


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