Man pages only open in links (browser)

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Man pages only open in links (browser)
started by: Winterhart

Posted by Winterhart on Mar. 02 2006,20:52

Is there any way to fix that? They don't actually display completely in the browser, either; just some text that says "If this page is not displayed, click here."
I don't get any error messages, so I assume the pages have all been installed.
Is there anything that I can do to fix this, so the man pages display correctly on the commandline (without links!) ?

Thank you --

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 03 2006,02:26

DSL doesn't have man...it's a shell script that loads online html-formatted man pages into a browser.

Posted by roberts on Mar. 03 2006,02:37

The latest version doesn't use links or a browser.
It uses wget and the less pager.

Posted by pr0f3550r on Mar. 03 2006,13:52

Code Sample

dsl@box:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/man
#!/usr/bin/perl
# man utility substitute
# written for Damn Small Linux by John Andrews March 07, 2004
# made to use Wget and Less in place of Links now Dec 15, 2005
use strict;

Wow, very clever!

Posted by Winterhart on Mar. 03 2006,15:30

Hmm...I got DSL 2.0 from the coverdisk of one of my linux mags this month...methinks they were slightly behind the times!

However, this still means that I can only get at the man pages when I'm online. Which sucks, as I need help with the commands that are supposed to *get* me online.

Well, at least I know now that it's not something I did wrong. Thanks very much to all!

Posted by pr0f3550r on Mar. 03 2006,16:19

Adding man pages would take DSL over the 50MB limit.
If you have done a hd-install, load the dpkg extension, configure your debian mirror, become root and launch: 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' and that should rebuld all packages and fill the man pages.

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 03 2006,19:25

There is also a man uci extension. It may be a little outdated at this time, though, since it includes pages for the apps that were in DSL 1.2