Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:39:02 -0600 From: Jonathan Horne <freebsd08@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed. Message-ID: <200712311639.03616.freebsd08@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20712311153h354d259cxf8644bcbb2d26b58@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20712310641k4649c0bbi99363c7be47655c2@mail.gmail.com> <20071231095507.0234630e.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <80f4f2b20712311153h354d259cxf8644bcbb2d26b58@mail.gmail.com>
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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 freebsd@dfwlp.com
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