On 6/20/05, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
> 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.
I was hoping a debianista would crawl out of the woodwork and tell me what
pkg to pull down that would do the job, but so far no joy... Que alegria!!
-- Chuck Hast To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal."----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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