Re: Please help with command "man"

["Paul D. Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>]

%% "A. Tuazon" <arnetuaz@enoreo.on.ca> writes:

  at> I typed in the command and I got the message " bash : man :
  at> command not found ".  I went on IRC to the debian channel and the
  at> people there told me to go to logon root and type the command
  at> "apt-get install man" or "apt-get install man-db" either one
  at> resulted in an error message : " E: couldn't find package man ".

Hmm.  The "man" command is definitely in the man-db package.  First,
type this (as root):

  # apt-get update

It should download lots of files.  Now try "apt-get install man-db".

If that doesn't work, then it can't find the package database; somehow
your /etc/apt/sources.list file may have been corrupted.

Edit that file and make sure this line is in there, at least:

  deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

Now try the update and install again.

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