Re: Man command

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:23:37PM +1200, Patrick Howden wrote:
> Hello I'm a newbie to Debian and I am having some problems with
> getting it to work properly (not many, but just a few). I can't find
> the "man" command on my system anywhere. This means that I can't read
> instructins for any packages which I download. Is there somewhere
> where I can download "man" (the manual command) from the Internet? It
> did not seem to come with the original configuration.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

Possibly you haven't installed it?

$ apt-get install man-db

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