On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: > > I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice, > there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a > "required" thing...
If you only installed the base system then the only editor availabe is AE (Andrews Editor). This was done because AE is small enough to fit on the base disks. > > another thing... 'man' doesn't seem to exist! Logged in as root, typing > 'man man' gives "command not found" -- and it's not in /usr/bin. > > what gives?? > The base system is only intended as a "platform" from which you can install other packages of interest. You will find man and man-pages are packages in the doc directory of the distribution. Hope this helps, Dwarf ------------ -------------- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------ If you don't see what you want, just ask --------------