man pages dont display

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: man pages dont display
started by: guy24x

Posted by guy24x on Jan. 25 2005,21:29

hi,

i've installed dsl 0.9.1 on my comp, and its great. however, i'm not able to access the man pages using the man command from the shell...the error i get is:

Forbidden
you dont have permission to access /cgi-bin/unixhelp/man-cgi on this server.
Apache/1.3.28 Server at mirrors.ccs.neu.edu Port 80

however, i'm able to access the internet fine.

any help regarding this appreciated!

thx,
guy24x

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Jan. 25 2005,22:19

Easy, the manservers are down, have been down for quite a while, and from what I understand, will most likely never come back up.

You are seeing that screen because the page is no longer public (or perhaps doesn't exist) on the server.

-J.P.

Posted by tfga on Jan. 29 2005,19:04

Anyone know how I can install (traditional) man? I've tried apt-get install man (it suggests man-db) but when i installed it doing something like "man ls" took me to the old man system, then i tried removing the original man script and reinstalling man and its still not working (now it just can't find any man)...

Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 29 2005,19:58

in order to use the actual man program you need to set a MANPATH environment variable, plus have man pages available in that path.

Or you could visit one of the many online man repositories such as
< http://linuxcommand.org/superman_pages.php >
< http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=ManPage&sec=1 >
< http://linux.ctyme.com/ >

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 29 2005,20:46

My personal favorite is die.net:

< http://www.die.net/doc/ >

The linux man pages are plentiful.