On 20/09/2011 09:50, deepak kumar wrote: > I want to download the freebsd manpages for some sections which i don't have
Individual man pages can be viewd on-line at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi -- that's obviously the processed page rather than the nroff source code. Page sources are available in the various on-line VCSes used by the project, but the man page sources are mostly interspersed with the C code etc. they describe. > and i need the compressed (tarball) for those section there is some way to > download them Hmmm.... manpages are available on the distribution media for a release. For instance, look at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/8.2-RELEASE/manpages There are several combinations of $ARCH and $VERSION available -- but only for released versions, so 8.2-RELEASE is the most up to date available. You'll need to download all of the files in that directory. Well, except for the CHECKSUMS.* and *.mtree files. Although not absolutely necessary, verifying the checksums is a good idea... The format is a split-up tar archive; if you read install.sh you'll see how to extract the contents. Be careful though -- by default unpacking that tarball will overwrite the manpages in /usr/share/man Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW
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