Thanks again Rick . What would I do without you ? :)
Indeed developer support with Mandriva One is (softly speaking) not the
best. I also had to reinstall binutils, as well as gcc, glib, etc Now it
looks OK.
With man-pages, I certainly looked for this name, but probably made some
typos
Your message provided me the confidence I needed :) Now I have the manuals,
which is great.
All the best and Happy New Year
Michael
On 31/12/06, RickS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Thanks a lot Rick for your assistance
Your welcome =)
>
> Actually, I figured out the solution few hours after I sent this
message.
>
> There was a statement excludedocs=yes (or something similar) in
> /etc/rpm/macros. Indeed, /etc/rpm/rpmrc is not used with Mandriva, but
> /etc/rpm/macros is used instead probably with same functionality (an
naybe
> even same syntax) as /etc/rpm/rpmrc in a "standard" configuration. Why
> "excludedoc=yes" happened to be there ? Probably because my file system
> started as a copy of MandrivaOne, and later I upgraded it by installing
many
> extra packages. For MandrivaOne excludedocs=yes makes sense, because the
> whole installation should fit a single CD.
>
> Now I have to reinstall quite a few packages to get the documentation,
> because it looks like Mandriva installer doesn't keep original
RPM-s. BTW
> what is the installer's name, I would like to call it without Gnome
menu.
I know what you mean. I just did the same thing with Mandriva One
and it worked fine. Had some files get borked on the install, binutils
was one and wouldn't build the ATI driver until I re-installed the
assembler.
You mean the installer GUI ? it is rpmdrake. You can also use urpmi
from the command line.
(the wiki is not responding at the moment, it has a good page,
http://mdv.vmlinuz.ca/, so try http://zarb.org/~zerodogg/RPM-HOWTO.html
> And probably a straightforward question? Which package contains man
pages
> for glibc (I mean standard C functions like fork, spawn, malloc, etc).
> libc-devel has include files but not man pages.
The package is man-pages-2.39-1mdv2007.0
Section 0 - Everything
Section 1 - Commands
Section 2 - System Calls
Section 3 - Library Calls
Section 4 - Special Files
Section 5 - File Formats and Conversions
Section 6 - Games for Linux
Section 7 - Macro Packages and Conventions
Section 8 - System Management Commands
Section 9 - Kernel Routines
So type man 3 malloc
You can always get the latest files here:
http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#man
or you can read them here: http://www.linuxcommand.org/superman_pages.php
> And one more question. Is there a way to read docbook files without KDE,
> konquerror, or converting them into pdf ? All above mentioned have a lot
of
> dependencies, while I prefer something simple for gnome to read docbook
> files.
Sorry, can't help you here, no idea, you could google or an answer
=)
> Cheers
> Michael
HTH
--
~RickS
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