Re: Help again with command "man".
Hi,
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, A. Tuazon wrote:
> However, when I was installing the OS via floppies only, shouldn't the
> installation have installed "man" for me ? Or do you still have to install
> "man" after you install the system ?
If you installed from floppies only with no install from CD afterwards
or from internet, you have probably only the base-system installed. So
your computer is running with nothing but the plain OS. Man-db, X11 and
all the other things are still missing.
> Therefore, could someone please tell me if there is a way to install "man"
> via floppies. I'm using an ancient 486 and it only has a hd and 1.44 floppy
> drive. I'd appreciate any help and thanks again to all those who replied to
> my previous message.
Hmm, it is hardly possible to do with floppies. The *.debs are not
optimised to fit on a floppy, e.g. kernel-sources are 12 MB or so
large. Do you have a possibility to use a modem or get CDs? The problem
is, that with a plain base-install, there is still quite a bunch of
packages missing which are necessary to fulfill dependencies. Usually
you have to install several additional packages to make one package run.
Regards,
Kerstin
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kerstin.hoef-emden@uni-koeln.de
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