Apps :: Manpages Issue

Hi,

i missed some man pages in DSL, so i decided to install the man pages tarball (from http://tldp.org/manpages/man-pages-2.46.tar.gz). Installation worked fine, but after executing "man *", i always get an error message: "This is not a BusyBox application. Error: No Data read.", e. g. after executing "man ls". Now i gave up my search for a reason. Any suggestions?

mesmero

DSL is stripped of man pages. Busybox doesn't support man.

There are a few things you can do.

If you have a frugal install, there's a UCI in the repository.

You can try upgrading to the GNU utils (see your Tools menu to Upgrade to GNU Utils) to replace busybox.

There's also the "net-man pages" entry in the same part of the menu. You can use that or your browser of choice (with a search engine) if you're connected to the net and don't want to take up space on your hard drive with documentation that's widely available online.

The thing is, i am not connected to the internet with my laptop. I installed gnu-utils.dsl from a cd. Can I replace BusyBox in a different way? I mean, gnu-utils are installed already.

You also need to install the manpages uci for the offline ones. (Or you can manually install them yourself)

You did that already.. But man (program) is not included in gnu-utils (I think)..
You can compile it yourself from http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/
(depends on Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed; I think everything is in DSL with gnu-utils and gcc-with-libs)

edit: didn't notice there was man.uci, get that!

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