Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote:
My specification explicitly says NO connection whatsoever to
the internet.
The one you posted at the beginning of this thread didn't say
that. However, I'm happy to think about other alternatives.
Chris
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Sposkpat Sposkpat wrote:
Get the manpages from The Linux Documentation Project
http://www.tldp.org/manpages/man.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-3.45.tar.gz
Thank you. I'm new to Linux and keep finding new places to look.
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Chris Davies wrote:
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote:
My specification explicitly says NO connection whatsoever to
the internet.
The one you posted at the beginning of this thread didn't say
that. However, I'm happy to think about other alternatives.
Chris
Apologies. It's one of
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 11:19:31AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled package
I've used http://manpages.debian.net .
It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally.
Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the
On Jo, 10 ian 13, 15:11:44, Darac Marjal wrote:
I think I have found the solution to your problem. In the debian-goodies
package there is a program called debmany that will show a man page
from an installed or uninstalled package. It seems to rely on fetching
the manpages from a repository,
Greg Madden wrote:
On Saturday 05 January 2013 08:19:31 you wrote:
When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled
package I've used http://manpages.debian.net .
It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally.
Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the
On 01/08/2013 11:48 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
On Saturday 05 January 2013 08:19:31 you wrote:
When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled
package I've used http://manpages.debian.net .
It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally.
Are they available to download as
On Wed 09 Jan 2013 at 14:07:12 -0500, Doug wrote:
On 01/08/2013 11:48 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
On Saturday 05 January 2013 08:19:31 you wrote:
When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled
package I've used http://manpages.debian.net .
It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote:
To clarify my motivation:
1. divorce myself {as much as possible} from the web -
I'm on dial-up.
2. access all man pages {whether or not package
installed} using the man command.
Would it be reasonable to utilise a manpage cache with
On 01/09/2013 03:06 PM, Brian wrote:
On Wed 09 Jan 2013 at 14:07:12 -0500, Doug wrote:
On 01/08/2013 11:48 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
On Saturday 05 January 2013 08:19:31 you wrote:
When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled
package I've used http://manpages.debian.net .
It would
Chris Davies wrote:
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote:
To clarify my motivation:
1. divorce myself {as much as possible} from the web -
I'm on dial-up.
2. access all man pages {whether or not package
installed} using the man command.
Would it be reasonable to utilise a manpage
Doug wrote:
On 01/09/2013 03:06 PM, Brian wrote:
On Wed 09 Jan 2013 at 14:07:12 -0500, Doug wrote:
On 01/08/2013 11:48 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
On Saturday 05 January 2013 08:19:31 you wrote:
When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled
package I've used
of ALL man pages
To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 5:15 PM
Chris Davies wrote:
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net
wrote:
To clarify my motivation:
1. divorce myself {as much as
possible} from the web -
I'm on dial-up.
2. access all man
On Saturday 05 January 2013 08:19:31 you wrote:
When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled
package I've used http://manpages.debian.net .
It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally.
Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the
web? [I use
On 06/01/13 06:19, Richard Owlett wrote:
When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled package I've
used http://manpages.debian.net .
It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally.
Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the web? [I use
squeeze.]
I
Tom Grace wrote:
On 5 Jan 2013, at 17:19, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote:
When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled package I've used
http://manpages.debian.net .
It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally.
Are they available to download as a set
Brian wrote:
On Sat 05 Jan 2013 at 11:19:31 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled package
I've used http://manpages.debian.net .
It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally.
Save the pages you download. These are the ones
Chris Davies wrote:
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
'ar -x' will get data.tar.gz from the .deb file. 'tar zvxf data.tar.gz'
will do the unpacking. The man pages are in /usr/share/man. Something
like 'cp' should be able to get at them.
For any given $PACKAGE deb this will extract the
On Du, 06 ian 13, 06:29:22, Richard Owlett wrote:
Brian wrote:
'ar -x' will get data.tar.gz from the .deb file. 'tar zvxf data.tar.gz'
will do the unpacking. The man pages are in /usr/share/man. Something
like 'cp' should be able to get at them.
I think that points me in the direction I
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote:
Chris Davies wrote:
ar -p $PACKAGE data.tar.gz | tar xzvCf / - ./usr/share/man
I'll have to sit down with man pages a figure out why that
does what you say.
ar : archiver. It works on the $PACKAGE archive. The -p flag writes
the named member(s)
When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled
package I've used http://manpages.debian.net .
It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally.
Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the
web? [I use squeeze.]
I have copied all the .deb files from the 8
First, sorry for top posting.
Generally, manpages are available in the package they relate to, and I'm not
aware of an easy way to get all of them. Might you be able to use something
like httrack to take an offline copy of a web version of them ?
Sent from my iPad
On 5 Jan 2013, at 17:19,
On Sat 05 Jan 2013 at 11:19:31 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled package
I've used http://manpages.debian.net .
It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally.
Save the pages you download. These are the ones you want to look
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
'ar -x' will get data.tar.gz from the .deb file. 'tar zvxf data.tar.gz'
will do the unpacking. The man pages are in /usr/share/man. Something
like 'cp' should be able to get at them.
For any given $PACKAGE deb this will extract the manpages into
/usr/share/man
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