Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:44:04 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing manual pages Message-ID: <20070723094404.GA5068@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <ef855e8e16f964a07f262347f225339f@szalbot.homedns.org> References: <20070723092513.GA4906@kobe.laptop> <ef855e8e16f964a07f262347f225339f@szalbot.homedns.org>
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On 2007-07-23 11:31, Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> wrote: >>> When I went for FreeBSD, I chose the minimal distribution and as a >>> result do not have man pages. I would like to install them but when >>> I specify an fpt server (via sysinstall) I get: >>> >>> Unable to transfer the manpages distribution from >>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org. >>> >>> This is 6.2-RELEASE-p6 #4. I changed the name into any in >>> sysinstall options because otherwise it would complain that there >>> is no such distribution on the server. >>> >>> What should I do to have the man pages installed? >> >> Fire up sysinstall and add the 'man' bundle of files? :-) > > 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 :) > But I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I do not have the FBSD iso > image so I need to use an ftp server and here's where I get stuck. 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: # ./install.sh That's all. You don't even need to run sysinstall for this :-)
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