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

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