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Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)

From Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)
Date 2020-06-02 00:30 +0200
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On 6/1/20 6:02 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/01/2020 04:02 PM, Ralph Katz wrote:
>> On 5/30/20 3:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> ...
>>> *PROBLEM*
>>> As package is not installed, that directory does *NOT* exist.
>>>
>>> Where to find required documentation on the web?
>>>
>>> NOTE BENE
>>> This post is about man pages as a class.
>>>
>>
>> apt show debian-goodies
>> ...
>> debman     - Easily view man pages from a binary .deb without extracting
>>                 [man, apt* (via debget)]
>>
>> So...  ~$ dman packagename   # will fetch the manpages as though they
>> were local.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ralph
>
>
> Thank you. Looks interesting.
> 1st didn't work even after installing debian-goodies.
> Suspect operator. Leaving now. will pursue in morning


Try the online manuals at https://manpages.debian.org/ 
<https://manpages.debian.org/> .


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*...Bob*

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Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-05-30 12:00 +0200
  Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-05-30 13:00 +0200
    Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-05-30 15:40 +0200
  Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-05-30 15:50 +0200
    Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-05-30 16:20 +0200
  Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-05-30 16:20 +0200
    Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-05-30 17:00 +0200
      Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-05-30 17:10 +0200
        Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-30 23:10 +0200
          Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-01 09:00 +0200
          Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-02 13:20 +0200
            Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-02 16:40 +0200
            Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-06-02 17:10 +0200
  Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-30 16:50 +0200
  Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2020-06-01 23:20 +0200
    Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-02 00:10 +0200
      Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2020-06-02 00:30 +0200
      Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-02 01:00 +0200
      Something is buggy - was [Re: Debian man pages have annoying  feature(sic)] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-02 15:10 +0200
        Re: Something is buggy - was [Re: Debian man pages have annoying  feature(sic)] The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-06-02 15:50 +0200
          Re: Something is buggy - was [Re: Debian man pages have annoying  feature(sic)] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-02 17:50 +0200
            Re: Something is buggy - was [Re: Debian man pages have annoying  feature(sic)] Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-03 07:30 +0200
        Re: Something is buggy - was [Re: Debian man pages have annoying  feature(sic)] l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-06-02 16:30 +0200
  [CLARIFICATION] Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-02 12:40 +0200
    Re: [CLARIFICATION] Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-06-02 14:40 +0200
  Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic) Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-06-02 16:40 +0200

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