> I just installed Debian for the first time (Install was very easy and > went well). So far I've only installed the base system (rescue, > driver, bases 1 through 5) It seems to be working quite well and I'll > start adding some packages soon but I have one concern. I can not use > 'man'. I always need help when it comes to using various commands. > When I type 'man' and the name of a command like df or something it > says unknown command. Do you think there's a problem with my install? > Do I need to install a package in order to get the manual command? > Any suggestions you have would be greatly appriciated.
No problem with your install. "man" is just not a part of the base installation. Fire up dselect and select man-db package (and everything it depends on - quite a few actually). ALex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +-------------------------------------------+ | _ 7 | Alexander Yukhimets | \ (") | http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +-------------------------------------------+