FreeBSD 4.11 minimal install man pages

Beecher Rintoul akbeech at gmail.com
Sun Sep 11 21:39:32 PDT 2005


On Sunday 11 September 2005 08:27 pm, David Christensen wrote:
> FreeBSD-questions:
>
> I'm an FreeBSD newbie who just did a minimal install of FreeBSD 4.11 on
> some vintage hardware, only to discover that the man pages seem to be
> missing.  So I STFW, found the following:
>
>
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/2004-01/056
>8.htm l
>
>
> ran /stand/sysinstall, and installed the man pages distribution.  But, I
> still get the following:
>
>     dpchrist at p166v:~$ man man
>     No manual entry for man
>
>
> I seem to recall running a "mandb" utility on a GNU/Linux installation
> sometime in the past, but I can't seem to find the FreeBSD equivalent (if
> there is such a thing).
>
>
> Searching this list's archive for "No manual entry for man" didn't yield
> the answer.
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
Boot off the install disk. Choose "Do a post install configuration". Choose 
"Additional Distribution Sets" - "Man" Install.

Cheers

Beech


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