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| From | Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Something is buggy - was [Re: Debian man pages have annoying feature(sic)] |
| Date | 2020-06-02 17:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <AdhkR-66E-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On 06/02/2020 08:45 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-06-02 at 09:05, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> On 06/01/2020 05:02 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/01/2020 04:02 PM, Ralph Katz wrote:
>
>>>> 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.
>
>> Copy and paste this morning from MATE terminal
>>> richard@defaultinstall:~$ dman gforth
>>> bash: dman: command not found
>>> richard@defaultinstall:~$ debman gforth
>>> Usage: debman [options] [-- man(1) options] <man page name> ...
>>>
>>> Options should be exactly one of:
>>> -f package.deb read pages from package.deb archive
>>> -p package download .deb for package and read pages
>>> from there
>>> richard@defaultinstall:~$ debman -p gforth
>>> Usage: debman [options] [-- man(1) options] <man page name> ...
>>>
>>> Options should be exactly one of:
>>> -f package.deb read pages from package.deb archive
>>> -p package download .deb for package and read pages
>>> from there
>>> richard@defaultinstall:~$ debman -f gforth.deb
>>> Usage: debman [options] [-- man(1) options] <man page name> ...
>>>
>>> Options should be exactly one of:
>>> -f package.deb read pages from package.deb archive
>>> -p package download .deb for package and read pages
>>> from there
>>> richard@defaultinstall:~$
>>
>> I have verified that both
>> https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/gforth/gforth.1.en.html
>> and
>> https://manpages.debian.org/buster/gforth/gforth.1.en.html
>>
>> Help please.
>
> I've dug into this, and while I thought at first there was a bug here
> myself, I've figured it out.
>
> The command lines you're giving are specifying the package name, but not
> the name of the man page. The "<man page name>" argument at the end of
> the usage section is not optional.
>
> For example,
>
> $ debman -p gforth vmgen
>
> works fine for me.
For what I was trying to do, I should have written
debman -p gforth gforth
instead of
debman -p gforth
My problem with dman revolves around running Stretch and debian.org
defaulting to serving up information about "stable" {i.e. Buster}.
My bandwidth constraints cause me to purchase DVD sets to upgrade. And
this time I had to purchase a flash drive instead instead of physical
DVDs. The intended target machine cannot boot from a flash drive so I
got delayed by housekeeping chores.
More later.
Thank you.
>
> If you need to find out the name of the actual man page (since, e.g., it
> isn't intuitively obvious that gforth will contain a man page for the
> name 'vmgen'), something like
>
> $ apt-file show gforth | grep /man/
>
> ought to do it; just drop the leading path (up through the final '/')
> and the trailing ".X.gz" (where X is a number) from each filename, and
> it should be a valid man-page argument to debman.
>
> (I'm not sure what it will do if there's a package which installs two
> man pages with the same name but different sections, because I haven't
> yet found any examples of packages which do that.)
>
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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
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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
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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
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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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