archives: Where art thou: man pages in new install?

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Greetings NOLUGers for the first time from a freedom seeking Win...s user!

I'm trying to get to know my newly installed Debian distro Linux and
everything is going o.k. so far except for one problem.: I can't seem to
find the man pages.

I enter 'man' at the prompt yet all I get is " bash: man: command not found"

What gives? Did I muff-up the install?

Where's my man?

Thanks in advance.

James
jveillo@bellsouth.net

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On Thursday 13 December 2001 05:24 pm, jv wrote:
> <AOL color="green" dtd="newbie">
>
> Greetings NOLUGers for the first time from a freedom seeking Win...s
> user!
>
> I'm trying to get to know my newly installed Debian distro Linux and
> everything is going o.k. so far except for one problem.: I can't seem
> to find the man pages.
>
> I enter 'man' at the prompt yet all I get is " bash: man: command not
> found"
>
> What gives? Did I muff-up the install?
>
> Where's my man?

I know this sounds stupid, but did you install the man package?

Also, debian isn't the easiest distro to install and maintain.
As someone who describes himself as a green newbie, another
one, like Mandrake, SuSE or even Redmond might be less of a
shock.

Sometimes, diving in head first teaches you how to swim, and
sometimes you knock your skull on the bottom, break your neck
and drown...

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Thanks guys for responding.

Yeah, the 'man' package wasn't installed. So, silly me went and did a
complete "develop" re-install; what a trip! It took no less than 4 hours.
All those prompt questions...now I'm dizzy.

James
jveillo@bellsouth.net

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From: "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@home.com>
To: <nolug@patientcarerx.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Where art thou: man pages in new install?

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> On Thursday 13 December 2001 05:24 pm, jv wrote:
> > <AOL color="green" dtd="newbie">
> >
> > Greetings NOLUGers for the first time from a freedom seeking Win...s
> > user!
> >
> > I'm trying to get to know my newly installed Debian distro Linux and
> > everything is going o.k. so far except for one problem.: I can't seem
> > to find the man pages.
> >
> > I enter 'man' at the prompt yet all I get is " bash: man: command not
> > found"
> >
> > What gives? Did I muff-up the install?
> >
> > Where's my man?
>
> I know this sounds stupid, but did you install the man package?
>
> Also, debian isn't the easiest distro to install and maintain.
> As someone who describes himself as a green newbie, another
> one, like Mandrake, SuSE or even Redmond might be less of a
> shock.
>
> Sometimes, diving in head first teaches you how to swim, and
> sometimes you knock your skull on the bottom, break your neck
> and drown...
>
> - --
> +------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: ron.l.johnson@home.com |
> | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org |
> | |
> ! Thanks to the good people in Microsoft, a great deal of |
> ! the data that flows is dependent on one company. That is |
> ! not a healthy ecosystem. The issue is that creativity gets |
> ! filtered through the business plan of one company. |
> ! Mitchell Baker, "Chief Lizard Wrangler" at Mozilla |
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> I enter 'man' at the prompt yet all I get is " bash: man: command not
> found"

I'm probably wrong, because I'm new to the Linux scene myself, but try
man [command name]

Like

man man
man bash
etc.
 
Not sure about Debian, but SuSE just outputs "What manual page do you want?"
if you just type in man. This might just be a little thing like that.
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