From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 10:40:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00285106566B for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:40:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deepakk.jangid@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2AB38FC12 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:40:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyf2 with SMTP id 2so276408gyf.13 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:40:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=29TfL4SOgosqygTEo74BrSAr5gBaE+mhStXBoa8hAMY=; b=Pof5Om1BJ1J+t0WPqJkbQlmuBj1c0xoJ8q+G8AKfOzEXicsXtyVMf3/OjTEUSxFxru 9C57F+z6KpvA9e5MFIX498V/EV45fjYQOrUmw1nqSMgjLUxztElSgudZVGmGKg1y1HAZ tXjVLHv66OR3Bo4LQBQkD4GON31W32Gy6M84M= Received: by 10.151.13.10 with SMTP id q10mr247100ybi.145.1316515218066; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:40:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.13.17 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:39:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E786601.5080608@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4E786601.5080608@infracaninophile.co.uk> From: deepak kumar Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:09:38 +0530 Message-ID: To: Matthew Seaman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Download manpages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:40:19 -0000 Hello Matthew, I tried but several section were empty :( On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Matthew Seaman < m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 20/09/2011 09:50, deepak kumar wrote: > > I want to download the freebsd manpages for some sections which i don't > have > > Individual man pages can be viewd on-line at > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi -- that's obviously the processed > page rather than the nroff source code. > > Page sources are available in the various on-line VCSes used by the > project, but the man page sources are mostly interspersed with the C > code etc. they describe. > > > and i need the compressed (tarball) for those section there is some way > to > > download them > > Hmmm.... manpages are available on the distribution media for a release. > For instance, look at: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/8.2-RELEASE/manpages > > There are several combinations of $ARCH and $VERSION available -- but > only for released versions, so 8.2-RELEASE is the most up to date > available. > > You'll need to download all of the files in that directory. Well, > except for the CHECKSUMS.* and *.mtree files. Although not absolutely > necessary, verifying the checksums is a good idea... The format is a > split-up tar archive; if you read install.sh you'll see how to extract > the contents. Be careful though -- by default unpacking that tarball > will overwrite the manpages in /usr/share/man > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW > > -- Thanks and Regards Deepak Kumar Member Technical Staff NetApp India Pvt Ltd Bangalore (Karnataka)