Re: Flaming Debian Newbies
Lee Elliott wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My personal opinion:- Flaming only wastes B/W and does nothing to help
> the next 'Newbie' who hasn't joined the list yet. Why be nasty? A
> single line "man('xzy')" reply direct to the poster (not via the list)
> will get the message across if you want to help - delete it if you
> don't..
Who flamed a newbie? I must have missed it.
To those who can't stand newbies and their questions: Please
SHUT THE HELL UP, and let the rest of us deal with the newbie.
>
> Having said that, when I followed the instructions (from Debian.org) for
> installing slink on my platform and finally got it to load, and logged
> in, I found that I didn't have 'man'. It took more RTFM'ing and
> figuring out the various things dselect was telling me before I tried
> looking for a discrete 'man' package to D/L and install. At the
> moment, having done some work on AIX, UnixWare and SCO, but never
> before having installed any flavour of Unix, I'm wondering if there is
> a Debian equivilent of 'smit' or 'sysadm' - no don't tell me - this is
> one I know I'll figure out eventually, but the point is, right _now_, I
> just don't know what I should be looking up or where.
The man package is far to large to fit on the base system. I had
exactly the same problem when I installed Linux for the first
time. 'man' was one of the few unix commands that I knew (thanks
to a book I bought), but after installing it wasn't there. Ouch.
Sorry, don't know about 'smit' or 'sysadm'.
What is it you are trying to look up?
--
Ed C.
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