Re: installing manual pages

On 2007-07-23 11:31, Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When I went for FreeBSD, I chose the minimal distribution and as a
result do not have man pages. I would like to install them but when
I specify an fpt server (via sysinstall) I get:

Unable to transfer the manpages distribution from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org.

This is 6.2-RELEASE-p6 #4. I changed the name into any in
sysinstall options because otherwise it would complain that there
is no such distribution on the server.

What should I do to have the man pages installed?

Fire up sysinstall and add the 'man' bundle of files? :-)

Thanks for your answer. You probably did not read my post. I do this
via sysinstall and it fails.

Ah, I apologize for that. You are right, of course; I misread at least
part of the original post. I obviously need more coffee before I am
fully aware of the reality around me :)

But I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I do not have the FBSD iso
image so I need to use an ftp server and here's where I get stuck.

It's possible that sysinstall tries to fetch manpages from a
non-existent place. You can download the 6.2-RELEASE manpages
from the FTP site and install them manually.

The manpages can be found at:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/

If you have wget installed, installing them should be as easy as:

[1] Create an empty manpages/ directory

# mkdir manpages

[2] Enter the new manpages/ directory

# cd manpages

[3] Fetch the files from FTP

# wget -nd -np -r -c ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/

[4] Run the 'install.sh' script as root:

# ./install.sh

That's all. You don't even need to run sysinstall for this :-)

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