From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 10:26:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8321A16A421 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:26:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from szalbot.homedns.org (lists.lc-words.com [83.19.156.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3490313C474 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:26:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from www (helo=www) by szalbot.homedns.org with local ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:26:49 +0200 To: Giorgos Keramidas X-PHP-Script: https://poczta.szalbot.homedns.org/index.php for 192.168.11.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:26:49 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot In-Reply-To: <20070723094404.GA5068@kobe.laptop> References: <20070723094404.GA5068@kobe.laptop> Message-ID: X-Sender: zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing manual pages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:26:58 -0000 Dear Giorgos, >> Thanks for your answer. You probably did not read my post. I do this >> via sysinstall and it fails. > > Ah, I apologize for that. You are right, of course; I misread at least > part of the original post. I obviously need more coffee before I am > fully aware of the reality around me :) I need to apologize as I think I have sound quite harsh! > It's possible that sysinstall tries to fetch manpages from a > non-existent place. You can download the 6.2-RELEASE manpages > from the FTP site and install them manually. > > The manpages can be found at: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/ > > If you have wget installed, installing them should be as easy as: > > [1] Create an empty manpages/ directory > > # mkdir manpages > > [2] Enter the new manpages/ directory > > # cd manpages > > [3] Fetch the files from FTP > > # wget -nd -np -r -c > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/ > > [4] Run the 'install.sh' script as root: Need to chmod it to have appropriate permissions but thank you! I now enjoy man pages for all the default tools and software which comes with FBSD! Thank you again! -- Zbigniew Szalbot