On 06/01/2020 05:02 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 06/01/2020 04:02 PM, Ralph Katz wrote:On 5/30/20 3:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: ...*PROBLEM* As package is not installed, that directory does *NOT* exist. Where to find required documentation on the web? NOTE BENE This post is about man pages as a class.apt show debian-goodies ... debman - Easily view man pages from a binary .deb without extracting [man, apt* (via debget)] So... ~$ dman packagename # will fetch the manpages as though they were local. Regards, RalphThank you. Looks interesting. 1st didn't work even after installing debian-goodies. Suspect operator. Leaving now. will pursue in morning.
I am running Debian 9.8 with MATE desktop Synaptic reports:
Commit Log for Mon Jun 1 16:45:47 2020 Installed the following packages: curl (7.52.1-5+deb9u9) dctrl-tools (2.24-2+b1) debian-goodies (0.69.1) libcurl3 (7.52.1-5+deb9u9)
Copy and paste this morning from MATE terminal
richard@defaultinstall:~$ dman gforth
bash: dman: command not found
richard@defaultinstall:~$ debman gforth
Usage: debman [options] [-- man(1) options] <man page name> ...
Options should be exactly one of:
-f package.deb read pages from package.deb archive
-p package download .deb for package and read pages
from there
richard@defaultinstall:~$ debman -p gforth
Usage: debman [options] [-- man(1) options] <man page name> ...
Options should be exactly one of:
-f package.deb read pages from package.deb archive
-p package download .deb for package and read pages
from there
richard@defaultinstall:~$ debman -f gforth.deb
Usage: debman [options] [-- man(1) options] <man page name> ...
Options should be exactly one of:
-f package.deb read pages from package.deb archive
-p package download .deb for package and read pages
from there
richard@defaultinstall:~$
I have verified that both https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/gforth/gforth.1.en.html and https://manpages.debian.org/buster/gforth/gforth.1.en.html Help please. TIA