Chris Davies wrote:
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:'ar -x' will get data.tar.gz from the .deb file. 'tar zvxf data.tar.gz' will do the unpacking. The man pages are in /usr/share/man. Something like 'cp' should be able to get at them.For any given $PACKAGE deb this will extract the manpages into /usr/share/man (you might prefer to change tar's "/" to "/tmp"): ar -p "$PACKAGE" data.tar.gz | tar xzvCf / - ./usr/share/man Chris
I'll have to sit down with man pages a figure out why that does what you say.
A large part of my motivation is self-education.