Missing UNIX man sections

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Dec 14 02:22:06 UTC 2011


Hi,

Please don't top-post, and please keep list replies on-list.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:51:40AM +0000, Michael Faklis wrote:
>> 
> Hi,
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:25:09AM +0000, Michael Faklis wrote:
>> > I just installed the current FreeBSD.  I noted that it's missing some man page sections.  I've searched, but I can't find them.  Please tell me how I can download and install these missing man pages.
>> > 
>> 
>> Can you give an example of which ones are missing?
> 
> Man sections 1 and 7 are included.  Sections 2, 3 ,4 ,5 ,6, 5, 8, 9, n are missing.
> 
> If you go to the man page at freebsd.org, you'll see all 10 sections, but only sections 1 and 7 made it to my computer.
> 

What version of FreeBSD is this?  ('uname -a' output would be helpful.)

In any case, did you (de-)select the 'doc' distribution from the
installer?  (This is, in part, why what specific version this is is
important).

Glen




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