I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.

None of the default man pages were installed on my system
when I
installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot some part of
the
install (accidentally forgot to click something). Does
anyone know how
I can trivially obtain the base install's man pages?

Thanks,
-Jim Stapleton
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:41:05 -0500 Jim Stapleton wrote:

> None of the default man pages were installed on my
system when I
> installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot some
part of the
> install (accidentally forgot to click something). Does
anyone know how
> I can trivially obtain the base install's man pages?

sysinstall -> Configure -> Distributions -> [x]
man


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& Internet SP
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Power To Serve
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In response to "Jim Stapleton"
<stapleton.41gmail.com>:

> None of the default man pages were installed on my
system when I
> installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot some
part of the
> install (accidentally forgot to click something). Does
anyone know how
> I can trivially obtain the base install's man pages?

Boot up the system and log in as root.  Then run sysinstall.
 Select
Custom -> Distributions -> Custom.  From there you can
select the
man distribution.  Then OK your way back until sysinstall
actually
installs the man pages.

I expect you selected a "minimal" install when you
installed, which
doesn't include man pages.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech
.com
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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

On Dec 31, 2007 9:55 AM, Bill Moran <wmoranpotentialtech.com> wrote:
> In response to "Jim Stapleton"
<stapleton.41gmail.com>:
>
>
> > None of the default man pages were installed on my
system when I
> > installed FreeBSD recently. I figured I forgot
some part of the
> > install (accidentally forgot to click something).
Does anyone know how
> > I can trivially obtain the base install's man
pages?
>
> Boot up the system and log in as root.  Then run
sysinstall.  Select
> Custom -> Distributions -> Custom.  From there
you can select the
> man distribution.  Then OK your way back until
sysinstall actually
> installs the man pages.
>
> I expect you selected a "minimal" install
when you installed, which
> doesn't include man pages.
>
> --
> Bill Moran
> http://www.potentialtech
.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
freebsddfwlp.com
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