Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.



On Monday 31 December 2007 01:53:15 pm Jim Stapleton wrote:
Thanks. I feel stupid now (through my own stupidity and not the fault
of anyone here but me).

I should have looked at that before. I have always done a minimal
install of FreeBSD (well, for 6.1 and 6.2, didn't use FreeBSD before
that), and have not had any problems getting the man pages before. Is
this new, or is my memory going/gone?

-Jim


the man pages all magically appear after a buildworld and upgrade, so you
probably just never noticed in the past. i only do minimal installs too, and
a while back, i remember i had the same issue. i had some systems with man
pages, and some systems without. took me a bit to figure out that the ones
that had them, were all updated, and the ones without, were all 'fresh'
RELEASE installs.

cheers,
--
Jonathan Horne
http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org
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