> > Lee Elliott wrote: [...] > > Having said that, when I followed the instructions (from Debian.org) for > > installing slink on my platform and finally got it to load, and logged > > in, I found that I didn't have 'man'. It took more RTFM'ing and > > figuring out the various things dselect was telling me before I tried > > looking for a discrete 'man' package to D/L and install.
Ed Cogburn wrote: [...] > The man package is far to large to fit on the base system. I had > exactly the same problem when I installed Linux for the first > time. 'man' was one of the few unix commands that I knew (thanks > to a book I bought), but after installing it wasn't there. Ouch. Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix will be likely to try the man command on a new debian system, it may be a good idea to include a script called `man' in the base system that prints a message explaining that the man pages are not yet there, where to get them, how to install them, and where to find other sources of information (/usr/doc, ww.debian.org, this list). Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
