Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:09:38 +0530 From: deepak kumar <deepakk.jangid@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Download manpages Message-ID: <CAKder9WYR8BibNx0O%2Bw-iED=aq0jXO00jP1QoBN9Lo9-vHKQew@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E786601.5080608@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <CAKder9U6pmYnjMT=1-oKmnikRnJCHJVxk-pxgD8kikfpAbKKJw@mail.gmail.com> <4E786601.5080608@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Hello Matthew, I tried but several section were empty :( On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Matthew Seaman < m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > 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 > available. > > 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 > > -- > 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 > > -- Thanks and Regards Deepak Kumar Member Technical Staff NetApp India Pvt Ltd Bangalore (Karnataka)
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