Tom Grace wrote:
On 5 Jan 2013, at 17:19, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled package I've used http://manpages.debian.net . It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally. Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the web? [I use squeeze.] I have copied all the .deb files from the 8 DVD install set to a USB drive. How could I extract all the man pages? TIAFirst, sorry for top posting.
Fixed ;)
Generally, manpages are available in the package they relate to, and I'm not aware of an easy way to get all of them.Might you be able to use something like httrack to take an
offline copy of a web version of them ?
I don't think it would find internal links to follow. But I'll need that reference for another project. Thanks.