On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 01:17:13PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Try manpages.org .
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>
If you're on a Debian system, this should already be installed but otherwise
apt-get install manpages
Also - manpages.debian.org
Linux-Fan wrote:
...
> Just as a side note (I saw that the mapages have been found later in the
> thread by going online): You can also search manpages by using the `apropos`
> command (part of the man-db package) like this:
>
> $ apropos exfat
> dumpexfat (8)
(I saw that the mapages have been found later in the
thread by going online): You can also search manpages by using the `apropos`
command (part of the man-db package) like this:
$ apropos exfat
dumpexfat (8)- dump exFAT file system
exfatfsck (8)- check an ex
On 8/12/2016 11:49 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Friday 12 August 2016 09:33:02 Richard Owlett wrote:
On 8/12/2016 3:25 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Richard Owlett composed on 2016-08-12 02:49 (UTC-0500):
Simply googling any specific man page WFM for components and
utilities that aren't specific to Debia
On Friday 12 August 2016 09:33:02 Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 8/12/2016 3:25 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Richard Owlett composed on 2016-08-12 02:49 (UTC-0500):
> >>> Simply googling any specific man page WFM for components and
> >>> utilities that aren't specific to Debian.
> >>
> >> I explicitly wa
On 8/12/2016 3:25 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Richard Owlett composed on 2016-08-12 02:49 (UTC-0500):
Simply googling any specific man page WFM for components and
utilities that aren't specific to Debian.
I explicitly wanted the Debian version.
What doesn't exist can't be gotten. [SNIP}
What
Felix Miata:
Only with that one particular URL.
... which is officially recognized.
* https://debian.org/News/weekly/2013/19/index.en.html#manpages
Richard Owlett composed on 2016-08-12 02:49 (UTC-0500):
Simply googling any specific man page WFM for components and
utilities that aren't specific to Debian.
I explicitly wanted the Debian version.
What doesn't exist can't be gotten. IOW, if any given man page is not
specific to Debian, w
On 8/11/2016 3:18 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Richard Owlett composed on 2016-08-11 14:28 (UTC-0500):
http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi gives 404 error
Both "Google" and "DuckDuckGo" lead to pages headed "Welcome to
glinka!"
Any one else having problems?
Only with that one particular U
Richard Owlett composed on 2016-08-11 14:28 (UTC-0500):
http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi gives 404 error
Both "Google" and "DuckDuckGo" lead to pages headed "Welcome to
glinka!"
Any one else having problems?
Only with that one particular URL. Glinka is simply one of the hosts in t
http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi gives 404 error
Both "Google" and "DuckDuckGo" lead to pages headed "Welcome to
glinka!"
Any one else having problems?
On 2015-03-13, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>
> Can't seem to find mkisofs in later versions of Debian, I expect its
> been superseded by something with a different package name, and/or
> subsumed under mkfs:
There was a licensing issue and cdrtools (of which mkisofs
was a part) was dropped and replac
Google is your friend:
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/mkisofs8.html
Can't seem to find mkisofs in later versions of Debian, I expect its
been superseded by something with a different package name, and/or
subsumed under mkfs:
- try man mkfs -- I expect that ultimately the command the command
Dear Sir/Miss,
Via the commands 'man mkisofs', 'man 7 undocumented' (a manpage of aug, 24
2003) and 'mandb' I came on your e-mailaddress for any help. So here is my ask
for help, I'm Dutch and working with 'Ubuntu Trusty Tahr AMD64'. The
directory/map of 'foo' wasn't there.
By the way, I don't
try info gcc and see what happens.
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Michael Madden wrote:
I'm having problems viewing manpages for gcc on Debian 4.0 r3 i386. Other
manpages work just fine.
:~$ man gcc
No manual entry for gcc
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages ar
doc[version] is in
> either contrib or non-free because it will have invariant sections.
The GCC manuals and even the manpages have invariant sections, so they
are in non-free.
Sven
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:10:04AM -0600, Michael Madden wrote:
> I'm having problems viewing manpages for gcc on Debian 4.0 r3 i386.
> Other manpages work just fine.
>
> :~$ man gcc
> No manual entry for gcc
Do you have the manpages-dev package installed?
> See '
Michael Madden([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> I'm having problems viewing manpages for gcc on Debian 4.0 r3 i386.
> Other manpages work just fine.
>
> :~$ man gcc
> No manual entry for gcc
> See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are
Michael Madden wrote:
> I'm having problems viewing manpages for gcc on Debian 4.0 r3 i386.
> Other manpages work just fine.
>
> :~$ man gcc
> No manual entry for gcc
> See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
> :~$ man g++
&g
I'm having problems viewing manpages for gcc on Debian 4.0 r3 i386.
Other manpages work just fine.
:~$ man gcc
No manual entry for gcc
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
:~$ man g++
No manual entry for g++
See 'man 7 undocumented' f
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On 01/23/07 13:28, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
>
> I am running a debian derivative system.
>
> # apt-get install manpages
>
> tells that latest manpges are already installed, but
>
> $ man fork (or man 2 fork)
>
> says th
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:28:34PM -0500, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
>
> I am running a debian derivative system.
>
> # apt-get install manpages
>
> tells that latest manpges are already installed, but
>
> $ man fork (or man 2 fork)
>
> says that there is no manual
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:28:34PM -0500, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
> So how do I get and install the mapges?
manpages-posix-dev
I had to hunt a little to figure this out:
1) dpkg --get-selections |grep man
to figure out that the package called 'manpages' probably
contain
I am running a debian derivative system.
# apt-get install manpages
tells that latest manpges are already installed, but
$ man fork (or man 2 fork)
says that there is no manual entr for fork
So how do I get and install the mapges?
-ishwar
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Since installing sarge, I have not been able to run most of the
manpages on my box. Can I execute apt-get to reinstall all -- and only --
the relevant manpages? And, if so, how?
Thanks,
sam
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:56:46 -0600, Lance Heller wrote:
> Just had occasion to do some work with pthreads on a Woody box and
> discovered the pthread man pages are absent. They're available on an
> older Potato here, what's changed??
They were accidentally left out - see http://bugs.debian.o
Just had occasion to do some work with pthreads on a Woody box and
discovered the pthread man pages are absent. They're available on
an older Potato here, what's changed??
Thanks.
Lance
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:19:02PM -0400, Deedra Waters wrote:
> Please respond directly to me as I'm not subscribed to this list at the
> present time.
>
> I just reinstalled debian, and I keep getting errors similar to this in my
> manpages. It's not in all of them, j
Please respond directly to me as I'm not subscribed to this list at the
present time.
I just reinstalled debian, and I keep getting errors similar to this in my
manpages. It's not in all of them, just certain ones. This is the error.
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/irssi.1.gz is
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.23.0203 +0100]:
> more to come, probably.
- how do you reference a file on the filesystem to be used for more info
(/usr/share/doc//README)
- say the program has an interactive prompt, how do you classify
commands that can be entered at
hi,
in an effort to finally get my first package to my dear sponsor, i am
going through the horrors of writing a manpage. and of course i want to
do so with SGML and docbook-to-man.
i have a couple of quick questions, please try to be swift with your
answer ;_). i really tried to find online docs,
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 01:48:55PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:29:19PM -0600, Colin Watson
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Ugh, yes, that's horrible formatting. '.nf' means "no-fill mode", but it
> > has the effect you're thinking of. Make sure you add this line to t
on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:29:19PM -0600, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:59:58AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:38:20PM +, Colin Watson
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > Do use the bug tracking system. In the case of printc
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:59:58AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:38:20PM +, Colin Watson
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Do use the bug tracking system. In the case of printcap(5), a bug
> > should be filed against the three packages that contain it (lpr,
> > lprng
Karsten M. Self writes:
> My concern was whether or not I should post my revised manpage to the
> bugtracking system itself.
You should.
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nal window rather wider than
> > 80 characters.
>
> Probably depends on which package you're looking at. The version in
> lpr uses mdoc's .Bl request to construct a list, and looks OK.
lprng. I don't use groff or the man macros enough to know what the tag
is, I su
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Eric Boo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I at least get page up to work when I'm viewing man pages? Right now
> all I get are beeps when I try the page-up and page-down keys.
> Page-down isn't so important as I can use the spacebar instead.
> Neither do the up and down arrows work.
>
Hi,
How do I at least get page up to work when I'm viewing man pages? Right now all
I get are beeps when I try the page-up and page-down keys.
Page-down isn't so important as I can use the spacebar instead.
Neither do the up and down arrows work.
Using SID.
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Where can I get a .deb (or any other format) containing the kernel
function manpages (man9)? The only one I've found in the archives is
manpages-fr, but I don't speak French. Thanks.
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--- Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Do I have to install the manpages?
>
> it should've been done for you. if it's really
> not there, then something is
> very wrong with your system.
>
I don't have the man pages either! I installed
install the rest of the
system with it. I'd recommend starting 'dselect', using the APT
source with either your CDs (if you have CDs) or a normal Debian
mirror, and installing at least all of the standard priority packages.
Chris> From here I want to learn and am told the manpages
Peter Jay Salzman writes:
> that is absolutely WILD that the man pages weren't installed. sounds
> like your install didn't complete correctly.
The base system installed correctly: it does not include the man-db package
that provides the man command. The base system includes only the bare
necess
On Thu 14 Dec 00, 6:36 PM, Chris said...
> Hello,
>
> I am new to Debian.
> I have installed the base system.
> >From here I want to learn and am told the manpages are a good start.
> When I type:
>
> man apt-get
>
> for example, the system replies th
Hello,
I am new to Debian.
I have installed the base system.
>From here I want to learn and am told the manpages are a good start.
When I type:
man apt-get
for example, the system replies that Bash does not know what man is.
Do I have to install the manpages?
If so, how to I get t
I couldn't find out the package containing manpages for
libc, I think. i.e. printf(3), scanf(3), etc
Where are they?
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Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ** Now I have a question: **
>
> How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage?
> When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places.
>
> Using man's --ascii option didn't help.
If you really want to print the contents:
Seems that those perl-5.004 packages are not actually
installed. You can rebuild the dpkg database, yes? Maybe I need to do that
so it realizes they're not there.
Mike
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> The manpages are in perl-5.005-doc, you'll have t
The manpages are in perl-5.005-doc, you'll have to remove perl 5.004 if
you want to get rid of it.
Ron Rademaker
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:
>
> Hey guys. I have the following installed:
>
> in perl-5.004(no description available)
>
owledge, I
installed 5.005 over it? Can I fix this?
Also, when I type "man perl", I get the main perl manpages, but
none of the other perl manpages seem to be installed, like perlvar,
perlfunc, etc.
??
Mike
"To listen to the words of the learned, and t
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:34:12 +1000 , "Kenrick, Chris"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>IIRC Slink minimum install is circa 30 MB
>
>Would it be worth a try installing minimal Slink first,
>then apt-get upgrade;apt-get dist-upgrade ?
No. The man pages are in the packages themselves. Your approach
wouldn'
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Subject: Installing packages without manpages and docs
Hi,
I am using Debian on a bunch of servers with a minimal install. The
barebone install is about 80 MB for potato and I'd like to reduce it
even more.
Is there any way to make apt-get stop installing packages' man
Hi,
I am using Debian on a bunch of servers with a minimal install. The
barebone install is about 80 MB for potato and I'd like to reduce it
even more.
Is there any way to make apt-get stop installing packages' man pages
and documentation? I never actually tried that, but would symlinking
/usr[/s
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:19:12AM -0500, SKillz wrote:
> I do not have a local printer attached to my linux machine, so I need
> to know the command to output manpages to a text file.
You can do better than plain text!
man -t man > man.ps
But you can get ascii too. See man man for
I do not have a local printer attached to my linux machine, so I need to know
the command to output manpages to a text file.
Thanks,
Scott
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:43:58PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote:
> For some reason, root cannot view manpages. If I type "man ls" as root,
> I get the following:
>
> man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied
>
> It works fine as an ordinary user
For some reason, root cannot view manpages. If I type "man ls" as root,
I get the following:
man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied
It works fine as an ordinary user. I did an strace on the command, but
I'm not sure what to make of it. I've inclu
For some reason, root cannot view manpages. If I type "man ls" as root,
I get the following:
man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied
It works fine as an ordinary user. I did an strace on the command, but
I'm not sure what to make of it. I've inclu
On 8/1/2000 Mike Werner wrote:
What I'm wondering is would it be safe for me to just move all the
man pages under /usr/man to /usr/share/man and then update the links
under alternatives?
moving anything under /usr/* (excluding /usr/local which belongs to
you) is a very bad idea, this is becau
Now that I've gotten my system up to potato, I've started getting
errors regarding man pages. Namely, I've got quite a few dangling
links under /usr/man as well as /etc/alternatives. The dangling
links under alternatives are pointing at /usr/man
What I'm wondering is would it be safe for me to j
I just got through upgrading apache-doc, apache-common, and apache, all
to version 1.3.9-7 (latest from unstable).
I don't seem to see the manpages I would have expected. 'man apache'
and 'man apachectl', in particular, don't seem to turn anything up. Has
anyon
Havoc writes:
> 'manpages-dev' I think.
You're right. It is also priority standard, so I would have thought he'd
have it installed.
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Which
> package might I install to get the same (or similar) functionality as
> Solaris?
'manpages-dev' I think.
Havoc
Alec Smith writes:
> On Solaris and other systems I could execute a command such as 'man getc'
> for example to look up info on the C getc() function. On Debian I haven't
> been able to do this without getting the 'no manual entry' message. Which
> package might I install to get the same (or simila
e getc.3
/usr/man/man3/fgetc.3.gz
/usr/man/man3/getc.3.gz
/usr/man/man3/ungetc.3.gz
% dpkg -S getc.3.gz
manpages-dev: /usr/man/man3/getc.3.gz
manpages-dev: /usr/man/man3/fgetc.3.gz
manpages-dev: /usr/man/man3/ungetc.3.gz
Looks like the manpages-dev is the package he wants.
Gary
* Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Solaris and other systems I could execute a command such as 'man getc'
> for example to look up info on the C getc() function. On Debian I haven't
> been able to do this without getting the 'no manual entry' message. Which
> package might I install to
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 05:08:37AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote:
> On Solaris and other systems I could execute a command such as 'man getc'
> for example to look up info on the C getc() function. On Debian I haven't
> been able to do this without getting the 'no manual entry' message. Which
> package m
try' message. Which
> package might I install to get the same (or similar) functionality as
> Solaris?
>
>
I believe you need to install the developer manpages, which is a
separate package (manpages-dev, I think).
Mike
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try' message. Which
> package might I install to get the same (or similar) functionality as
> Solaris?
"manpages-dev".
Be aware though that TeXinfo rather than man is the preferred documentation
format for the GNU project; the info documentation is much more likely to be
On Solaris and other systems I could execute a command such as 'man getc'
for example to look up info on the C getc() function. On Debian I haven't
been able to do this without getting the 'no manual entry' message. Which
package might I install to get the same (or similar) functionality as
Solaris
Kurt,
Entschuldigen Sie bitte meine Grammatik. Ich spreche nur ein bisschen
Deutsch.
Wenn Sie Debian 2.1 haben, koennen Sie dies tun:
Zuerst installieren Sie die Pakete "manpages-de" und
"manpages-de-dev". Dann schreiben Sie:
export LANG=de_DE
Jetzt koennen Sie schreiben
Ich muss das Thema noch einmal aufgreifen, da ich das selbe Problem
habe und noch nicht "Jau" rufen kann. Die Umgebungsvariablen habe ich
gesetzt und auch die AEnderungen in der manpath.conf vorgenommen. In
bo hat das wunderbar geklappt, aber seit dem Update auf hamm muss ich
das Manual wieder
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Lazar Fleysher wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> It seems that I do not have section 2 installed. Should it be installed
> separately(how?) from all "main" manpages or what had happend?
manpages-dev has many section 2 (and section 3) entries.
Hello everyone,
It seems that I do not have section 2 installed. Should it be installed
separately(how?) from all "main" manpages or what had happend?
Thank you,
ZORO
Take these broken wings and le
Hello everyone, does anyone know where the kernel manpages are. they are
the ninth section. debian only supports the following:
This package contains the Linux man pages for these sections:
* 4 = Devices (e.g. hd, sd).
* 5 = File formats and protocols, syntaxis of several system
files
ou expect the C manpages in a c++ development package?
Please install manpages-dev, they are all there.
Marcus
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I was wondering in what package I might find the man pages for the C
subroutines, eg.
strtol, isascii, and the like.
I have the libstdc++-dev package installed but the man pages are not there.
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> It's a problem with your restrictive umask and the recent man-db.
> I'll upload a new one ASAP; meanwhile you can use
> umask 022 man bogus
Thanks. Actually, I reinstalled ALL the manpages AND the man-db, and
made the system generate the caches (were I suppose the problem wa
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 12:15:16AM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
>
> nr# man bogus
> Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...
>
>
>
> man: can't remove /tmp/zman21458aaa: Bad file descriptor
It's a problem with your restrictive umask and the recent man-db.
I'll upload a new on
Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have german and english manpages on my system. And I use LC_ALL and LANG
> for german local settings.
>
> If there is a german manpage for a certain topic, the corresponding english
> page isn't shown in favour of the
On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 12:58:54PM +0100, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have german and english manpages on my system. And I use LC_ALL and LANG
> for german local settings.
>
> If there is a german manpage for a certain topic, the corresponding english
>
Hello,
I have german and english manpages on my system. And I use LC_ALL and LANG
for german local settings.
If there is a german manpage for a certain topic, the corresponding english
page isn't shown in favour of the german one. Unfortunately, sometimes the
german manpage isn'
I just installed manpages-dev_1.18-2.deb, and I had to uninstall it,
because it breaks my man. It stalls updating the cache, untill I have
to CTRL-C it...
Anyone else?
Look:
nr# dpkg -i manpages-dev_1.18-2.deb
Selecting previously deselected package manpages-dev.
(Reading database ... 28709
More puzzling than anything else, but I've noticed some of the manpages
for some reason display a upside-down exclamation mark (!) instead of
a hyphen.
The puzzle is that this happens only on SOME of the VC's.
Same with high-ascii box characters. In some VC they display as box
char
Hi,
> Please get the actual release of it, the documentation contains a
> paragraph inspired by Ray Dassen that describes how to activate them.
Well, setting LANG works with them, thanks. But I cant find any
documentation in the binary package... (the readme itself desnt contain
anything (btw: it
work :)
}ii man 2.3.10-11 Display the on-line manual.
}ii manpages1.11-4 Section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 manpages
}ii manpages-de 0.1-1 German section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 manpages
^
Please get the actual release of it
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