Douglas Dike wrote: > > I've recently installed Debian Linux 0.93R6 on my system, and > I have what I'd consider a serious problem. Whenever I try to > read the man page for a program, I get the following message: > > troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char > > Which is a problem, seing as how it prevents me from reading > the documentation for troff, which doesn't have (apparently) > any ascii docs. Suggestions would be appreciated. > I installed debian from a Yggdrasil cdrom set called "Linux Internet Archives", and I had this same problem. I downloaded the Groff package from the debian archives at ftp.debian.org. After I installed the groff package which I had downloaded, the problem went away. The Yggdrasil cdrom set was the version entitled "Winter 1996."
I reported to Yggdrasil that I thought their release of this package must be corrupted, but I have never heard anything from them. BTW, I also had trouble with the gcc, emacs, and mh packages. In the case of these packages, all of them generated errors during package unpacking. Again the problem went away when I installed packages downloaded from the debian archives. I also reported my problems with these packages to Yggdrasil. Cheers, KC
