Re: Installing Man Pages
You have just inadvertantly opened an ongoing can of worms. The answer to
your query is "dpkg -i *.deb". Now as to the wisdom of leaving one of
the ten most used commands in almost every flavor of unix out of the base
system: whatever logic was used on this one escapes me, and the ongoing
thread has only brought up more questions than it's answered.
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Bal K. Paudyal wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>
> I downloaded man pages file from the net which has "*.deb" format. How can
> I install this file to the Debian base? Should I copy is somewhere, or
> something like that?
>
> Currently my Linux does not recognize "man ls" or "man fdformat" etc.
> commands.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
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Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a
damn.
email galt@inconnu.isu.edu
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