Author Topic: [SOLVED] Missing man pages for common commands  (Read 689 times)

Offline junkjunk

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[SOLVED] Missing man pages for common commands
« on: April 19, 2010, 03:20:02 PM »
Some common commands are missing man pages.
Examples: ls, su, df, and du are missing man pages.

I've installed PCLinuxOS 2010, and I've installed "man-pages" from the repository.
Is there another repository package that I'm missing?
« Last Edit: April 19, 2010, 03:56:27 PM by junkjunk »

Offline Texstar

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Re: Missing man pages for common commands
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2010, 03:33:23 PM »
Some common commands are missing man pages.
Examples: ls, su, df, and du are missing man pages.

I've installed PCLinuxOS 2010, and I've installed "man-pages" from the repository.
Is there another repository package that I'm missing?


install coreutils-doc-7.5-1pclos2010.i586.rpm

or even better

online http://man.he.net/


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Offline junkjunk

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing man pages for common commands
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2010, 03:57:39 PM »
Thanks.  I installed "coreutils-doc" from the repository and the man pages appeared.

Offline mikkl

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing man pages for common commands
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2010, 04:10:34 AM »
How about the help pages for kde4?  When I go into help, I often get "page not found".

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More missing man pages...

Xdialog man page is missing.

cdrecord man page produces error message "Open of cdrecord failed." when man:cdrecord is entered in Konqueror.
"whereis cdrecord" produces "cdrecord: /usr/bin/cdrecord /usr/share/man/man1/cdrecord.1.bz2" and "ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/cdrecord.1.bz2" produces "/usr/share/man/man1/cdrecord.1.bz2 -> /etc/alternatives/cdrecord.1.bz2" and "ls -l /etc/alternatives/cdrecord.1.bz2" produces "/etc/alternatives/cdrecord.1.bz2 -> /usr/share/man/man1/wodim.1.bz2" and "whereis wodim" produces "wodim: /usr/bin/wodim" which indicates there is no man page for wodim.

I've installed man-pages and coreutils-doc-7.5-1pclos2010.i586.rpm.

There may be other man pages that are missing and I'll post them if/when I stumble upon them.