Re: installing manual pages
On 2007-07-23 11:12, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I went for FreeBSD, I chose the minimal distribution and as a result do not have man pages. I would like to install them but when I specify an fpt server (via sysinstall) I get: Unable to transfer the manpages distribution from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org. This is 6.2-RELEASE-p6 #4. I changed the name into any in sysinstall options because otherwise it would complain that there is no such distribution on the server. What should I do to have the man pages installed? Fire up sysinstall and add the 'man' bundle of files? :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing manual pages
Hi, When I went for FreeBSD, I chose the minimal distribution and as a result do not have man pages. I would like to install them but when I specify an fpt server (via sysinstall) I get: Unable to transfer the manpages distribution from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org. This is 6.2-RELEASE-p6 #4. I changed the name into any in sysinstall options because otherwise it would complain that there is no such distribution on the server. What should I do to have the man pages installed? Fire up sysinstall and add the 'man' bundle of files? :-) Thanks for your answer. You probably did not read my post. I do this via sysinstall and it fails. But I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I do not have the FBSD iso image so I need to use an ftp server and here's where I get stuck. Warm regards, -- Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing manual pages
On 2007-07-23 11:31, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I went for FreeBSD, I chose the minimal distribution and as a result do not have man pages. I would like to install them but when I specify an fpt server (via sysinstall) I get: Unable to transfer the manpages distribution from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org. This is 6.2-RELEASE-p6 #4. I changed the name into any in sysinstall options because otherwise it would complain that there is no such distribution on the server. What should I do to have the man pages installed? Fire up sysinstall and add the 'man' bundle of files? :-) Thanks for your answer. You probably did not read my post. I do this via sysinstall and it fails. Ah, I apologize for that. You are right, of course; I misread at least part of the original post. I obviously need more coffee before I am fully aware of the reality around me :) But I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I do not have the FBSD iso image so I need to use an ftp server and here's where I get stuck. It's possible that sysinstall tries to fetch manpages from a non-existent place. You can download the 6.2-RELEASE manpages from the FTP site and install them manually. The manpages can be found at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/ If you have wget installed, installing them should be as easy as: [1] Create an empty manpages/ directory # mkdir manpages [2] Enter the new manpages/ directory # cd manpages [3] Fetch the files from FTP # wget -nd -np -r -c ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/ [4] Run the 'install.sh' script as root: # ./install.sh That's all. You don't even need to run sysinstall for this :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing manual pages
Dear Giorgos, Thanks for your answer. You probably did not read my post. I do this via sysinstall and it fails. Ah, I apologize for that. You are right, of course; I misread at least part of the original post. I obviously need more coffee before I am fully aware of the reality around me :) I need to apologize as I think I have sound quite harsh! It's possible that sysinstall tries to fetch manpages from a non-existent place. You can download the 6.2-RELEASE manpages from the FTP site and install them manually. The manpages can be found at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/ If you have wget installed, installing them should be as easy as: [1] Create an empty manpages/ directory # mkdir manpages [2] Enter the new manpages/ directory # cd manpages [3] Fetch the files from FTP # wget -nd -np -r -c ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/ [4] Run the 'install.sh' script as root: Need to chmod it to have appropriate permissions but thank you! I now enjoy man pages for all the default tools and software which comes with FBSD! Thank you again! -- Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing manual pages
On 2007-07-23 12:26, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/ [4] Run the 'install.sh' script as root: Need to chmod it to have appropriate permissions but thank you! I now enjoy man pages for all the default tools and software which comes with FBSD! Thank you again! You're welcome, of course. Enjoy the new manpages :-) If you update your source tree (i.e. with CVSup, or freebsd-update), and rebuild everything from the sources, you will get an even better set of manpages, up to date with the latest sources. It is not obligatory to go through the manual rebuild-from-source process though; just a FYI in case you ever need to do this. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing manual pages
also good to keep in mind, that if you're going to be rebuilding the world and updating that minimal install to -STABLE or RELEASE-p[latest], that you'll be installing the man pages along with the updated world as well. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
