Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > 'ar -x' will get data.tar.gz from the .deb file. 'tar zvxf data.tar.gz' > will do the unpacking. The man pages are in /usr/share/man. Something > like 'cp' should be able to get at them.
For any given $PACKAGE deb this will extract the manpages into /usr/share/man (you might prefer to change tar's "/" to "/tmp"): ar -p "$PACKAGE" data.tar.gz | tar xzvCf / - ./usr/share/man Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/orpmr9xg5q....@news.roaima.co.uk