Download manpages
deepak kumar
deepakk.jangid at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 10:40:19 UTC 2011
Hello Matthew,
I tried but several section were empty :(
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Matthew Seaman <
m.seaman at 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
>
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Thanks and Regards
Deepak Kumar
Member Technical Staff
NetApp India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore (Karnataka)
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