Re: Help again with command "man".
Hey guys, i've got the same problem
so, could any one tell me which package contains the "man" ?
Rgds
KaLeeSan, a new debian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerstin Hoef-Emden" <Kerstin.Hoef-Emden@Uni-Koeln.DE>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 8:27 PM
Subject: 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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