Re: Man Pages and Info Question
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 08:10:18AM -0700, Larry Smith wrote:
> I notice that the man pages and info help cover far
> less topics than on my old RedHat system.
>
> On RedHat I had to run a thing called "makewhatis" to
> unpack and install all the man pages.
>
> Is there something like that I haven't done to get all
> the man and info help pages installed? Or is Debians
> help system just not as complete?
"apt-get install manpages manpages-dev" will install a few manpages
(1172 according to dpkg -L manpages manpages-dev|grep .gz|wc -l). These
manpages are for sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7. Other pages are available from
other packages.
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