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mesmero

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Posted: May 03 2007,10:56

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

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Posted: May 03 2007,12:30

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.

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mesmero

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Posted: May 03 2007,13:20

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.

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Posted: May 03 2007,14:37

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

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Posted: May 03 2007,15:08

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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