Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:26:49 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing manual pages Message-ID: <fd6595181daa55c3923e09f2eaf9de15@szalbot.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <20070723094404.GA5068@kobe.laptop> References: <20070723094404.GA5068@kobe.laptop>
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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
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