Re: [SLUG] What did I do?

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Mon Jun 20 2005 - 17:57:28 EDT


On Monday 20 June 2005 15:57, Chuck Hast wrote:
> In trying to reduce the amount of "stuff" on a machine that I use for
> comms stuff it appears that I wiped out the man pages mechanisim.
>
> Now when I try to do a man pages on anything I get back
>
> root@fpac-dev:/# man find
> -bash: man: command not found
> root@fpac-dev:/#
>
> I of course wonder what else I have whacked... All I wanted was to
> get rid of stuff that I did NOT neead like great majority of the X stuff
> and games, and stuff to burn DVD's, all this thing is supposed to be
> is a packet switch and do some other comms stuff, but I was not
> trying to get rid of good stuff like the man pages....
>
> Where do I start looking, it looks like the actual pages are there it is
> the piece that actually does the manipulation...

Just do a basic install with the minimum. It's easier to install only what you
need than to remove once installed.

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Steve Szmidt

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