Topic: man pages missing

[Doug McCaughan]

Hello All!

One of my partitions recently became so currupted I had to completely reinstall SME 5.

Originally I had SME 4 installed then upgraded to 5 and "man ???" worked to pull up the manual pages of most commands. However, just installing a fresh v5 seems to not install the man pages.

Any suggestions on how to get the man pages installed?

Thanks.
Doug

[Damien Curtain]

Doug McCaughan wrote:
>
> Hello All!
>
> One of my partitions recently became so currupted I had to
> completely reinstall SME 5.
>
> Originally I had SME 4 installed then upgraded to 5 and "man
> ???" worked to pull up the manual pages of most commands.
> However, just installing a fresh v5 seems to not install the
> man pages.
>
> Any suggestions on how to get the man pages installed?

Whats your manpath set to? Most man pages live in /usr/share/man, does this exist, if so is it in your system manpath? Are you overiding this with a local env setting in your shell?

Also re the info pages there? Theyre often more frequently updated on the linux side.
--
 Damien

[Kelvin]

If you did a fresh install of SME 5, you will not have man as it is not installed by default.

You will need to either install it off the CD manually or download and install the current version off the net.

Kelvin

[Paul Lakra]

I am very new to Linux so excuse the naive question but the man as far as I can tell is not on the CD-ROM image I downloaded. I s ti somewhere on the Red Hat site as I cannot find it on Mitel's.

[Kelvin]

Hi Paul,

The man program should be located at :-

   \e-smith\RPMS

on the CD-ROM. On mine it's called man-1.5i2-0.7x.i386.rpm

Otherwise, download the current version from the net.

Kelvin

[Paul Lakra]

Thanks Kevin - it is there its just I did not know what I was looking at. Sorry - I really am green at this - How do I install it?

[robert]

1. Insert cd-rom into server's cd-rom drive and mount cd-rom

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

2. Install RPM through rpm program

rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/e-smith/RPMS/man-1.5i2-0.7x.i386.rpm

(tip: use the auto-completion feature of your shell -> type above path up to 'man-', then press .)

3. When you're done with cd-rom, unmount it

umount /mnt/cdrom
(yes, that's 'umount', not 'unmount'; or alternatively:)
eject

4. With man installed, read the man pages for 'rpm' and 'mount'

[Paul Lakra]

Thanks everyone - so easy when you know how!