On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 11:19:31AM -0600, Richard Owlett 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? I think I have found the solution to your problem. In the debian-goodies package there is a program called "debmany" that will show a man page from an installed or uninstalled package. It seems to rely on fetching the manpages from a repository, so you would need to make a local repository out of all those *.deb files, but that's a common enough task.
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