On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:10:18 -0700 (PDT) Larry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I notice that the man pages and info help cover far > less topics than on my old RedHat system. > > On RedHat I had to run a thing called "makewhatis" to > unpack and install all the man pages. > > Is there something like that I haven't done to get all > the man and info help pages installed? Or is Debians > help system just not as complete?
As others have said, the "manpages" and "manpages-dev" packages contain many miscellaneous manpages. Also, you won't have a manpage for a program that you haven't installed yet, more than likely. So installing that package will also install its manpage. Generally speaking, anyways ;) You can also use the last search field at http://packages.debian.org to search for files in packages you may not have installed on your local machine. Be sure to specify which of stable, testing, or unstable you're using :) -- ________________________________________________________________________ \ David B. Harris, Systems administrator | http://www.terrabox.com / / [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://eelf.ddts.net \ \======================================================================/ / Clan Barclay motto: Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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