Re: Need help running man on newly installed Debian system
Fungame Game wrote:
>
> I have recently installed Debian using the instructions on the web site.
> (I used a 5 floppy set). Everything seems to work fine. But man is
> missing (or so I think). I cannot access the manpages (am i doing it
> incorrectly by using man?) and whatis also doesnt work. I have combed
> the distributions archive and found nothing as far as man. Does anyone
> know what I need to do, or what I am doing wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Fungame
>
The man program lives in the deb package 'man-db'. You'll probably also
want to get the 'manpages' package. IIRC, these aren't part of the base
distribution because of their size.
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