Subject: Please help with command "man"
        Date: Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:07:51AM -0400

In reply to:A. Tuazon

Quoting A. Tuazon([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi, I'm a Linux newbie using version 2.2 of Debian GNU/Linux on an old 486
> with 16megs of ram and 268 megs of HD space.  I just installed Linux and
[snip]
> 
> at
> 
> P.S. I checked the /usr directory and I did find the directory of /man there
> as well as the subdirectories of /man : /man1 , /man5, and /man8.  These
> three directories had filed that ended in .gz
> 
Do  dpkg -S man-db
 &  dpkg -S manpages
to see if they are installed

if not then 
apt-get install man-db manpages

:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)

-- 
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the
only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
                -- Wernher von Braun
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