Installing the man pages

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Eugen-Andrei Gavriloaie wrote:

>Hi,
>Have one question...
>
>I recently installed freebsd. The installation was minimal except i
>added the ports collection. Done that because I wanted to be able to
>cvsupdate and after that be able to install software of my choice. The
>problem is i didn't install man pages, so if i issue "man ls" for
>example it won't work. A quick solution is to install man pages from
>the CD. But i wonder... Is it possible to install the man pages using
>the port collection?
>
>Tx
>  
>

You will have to either:

a.  grab the full sources via CVS, Cvsup, or CTM, then buildworld, etc.
This is covered in much detail in the handbook; IIRC, the chapter is
called "The Cutting Edge" .... In this instance, buildworld and installworld
would suffice to install the man pages, but unless you are quite sure
what you are doing, it would be best to do the whole routine.  If by some
chance you got source that wasn't the same as your installed system,
then installing "world" with a kernel built from different sources could
cause some problems.

b.  as root, while connected to the Internet, use sysinstall(8) as follows:
                   choose 'Configure'
                   choose 'Distributions'
                   choose 'man'
                   Hit "OK" ...

Probably the second choice would be easier to accomplish.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.