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On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Eugen-Andrei Gavriloaie wrote:

> Hi,
> Have one question...
>
> I recently installed freebsd. The installation was minimal except i
> added the ports collection. Done that because I wanted to be able to
> cvsupdate and after that be able to install software of my choice. The
> problem is i didn't install man pages, so if i issue "man ls" for
> example it won't work. A quick solution is to install man pages from
> the CD. But i wonder... Is it possible to install the man pages using
> the port collection?

No, as ports deal only with extra programs, and not with part of the 
base system itself. System within the base are installes from CD, or 
when you upgrade the system using cvs(up), then they reside underneath 
/usr/src

HTH
Olaf

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