installing manual pages
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Mon Jul 23 09:44:37 UTC 2007
On 2007-07-23 11:31, Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew at 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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