Dear Scurvy Newbie
This is obviously a date problem. Run mandb -c man directories to
index all manpage and in the future make sure newly intalled manpage
date are later then the indexes or better yet go back to dos an never
darken this discussion group again you hapless scoundrel.
On Sa
*-"Gregory Walther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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| I installed debian 2.0 and I cannot get the "man" pages to work.
Hm, can you be more specific? Have you installed the packages
man-db and manpages?
You can check with 'dpkg -s ' (sustitute
man-db and manpages for ).
| I asked this same question somewh
>> "GW" == Gregory Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GW> I installed debian 2.0 and I cannot get the "man" pages to work.
You have to install the man-db package. This packages provides the man
command. Also install the manpages package.
Ciao,
Martin
Did you install the man pages when you did your install? What is the
error message that you are getting when you say " I cannont get the "man"
pages to work"
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Gregory Walther wrote:
> Sorry to bother everyone with such a simple question. Or maybe it's not
> so simple, I do
I think the last time we discussed this on the mailing lists, we
decided that there was no problem with compressed man page source.
The decompressor runs quickly, the man browsers all understand .gz
files, etc. I think that it's OK for packages to start installing
compressed man pages.
Bru
Derek Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is there some way ask the install scripts to do so? I cannot just go
This issue has been discussed, but not resolved. It was decided to
wait until after the 1.1 release to deal with it. For now you would
probably be better off to try and just live with th
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