Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:08:01 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: deepak kumar <deepakk.jangid@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Download manpages Message-ID: <4E786601.5080608@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAKder9U6pmYnjMT=1-oKmnikRnJCHJVxk-pxgD8kikfpAbKKJw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKder9U6pmYnjMT=1-oKmnikRnJCHJVxk-pxgD8kikfpAbKKJw@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig66D5B25B7193F5CBA6DDA237 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 20/09/2011 09:50, deepak kumar wrote: > I want to download the freebsd manpages for some sections which i don't= have Individual man pages can be viewd on-line at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi -- that's obviously the processed page rather than the nroff source code. Page sources are available in the various on-line VCSes used by the project, but the man page sources are mostly interspersed with the C code etc. they describe. > and i need the compressed (tarball) for those section there is some way= to > download them Hmmm.... manpages are available on the distribution media for a release. For instance, look at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/8.2-RELEASE/manpages There are several combinations of $ARCH and $VERSION available -- but only for released versions, so 8.2-RELEASE is the most up to date availab= le. You'll need to download all of the files in that directory. Well, except for the CHECKSUMS.* and *.mtree files. Although not absolutely necessary, verifying the checksums is a good idea... The format is a split-up tar archive; if you read install.sh you'll see how to extract the contents. Be careful though -- by default unpacking that tarball will overwrite the manpages in /usr/share/man Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enig66D5B25B7193F5CBA6DDA237 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk54ZgkACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxhxwCePiZcNDMPjin+cXAnY+GHFJd1 OQ0An2ZT9l6PS8eMhRSa08fzYENWAWQ1 =2h9U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig66D5B25B7193F5CBA6DDA237--
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