Elie De Brauwer wrote:
a) do you have the coreutils package installed (which provides the
stat binary on my machine
b) that is not true, there are manpages for a whole lot of file, for
example if you have the mesa development files installed you have the
manpages for all Opengl functions available. On my system i have two
separate stat manpage i have man 1 stat (this describes the command
like i pasted below)
man 2 stat
(which describes the stat system calls which you can use in c/c++
(and probably other) programs to get information about files on you
system.)
helios@kafka:~$ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man2/stat.2.gz
manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man2/stat.2.gz
elios@kafka:~$ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man1/stat.1.gz
coreutils: /usr/share/man/man1/stat.1.gz
As you can see both manpages (which have the same name but cover
different topics) are originating from different packages, so
normally installing coreutils should provide you with the binary you
need.
hth
Thanks for the clarification on man pages ...
I don't appear to have the coreutils package installed.
Something tells me I am missing something obvious but !
debian:/home/web# apt-cache gencaches
Reading Package Lists... Done
debian:/home/web#
debian:/home/web# apt-cache search coreutils
debian:/home/web#
and from aptitude a search for coreutils provides zip, running debian
woody
OK what am I missing !
Dave