Install man pages

Hi
I installed Solaris 10 x86 with a complete install, but I not have the man page installed.
How I can install it ?
roberto

That is hardly possible, how did you come to this conclusion?

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I read some discussion from last summer, and I think that I did learn something, perhaps, maybe. . .? manpath is not an environment variable path sort of thing, but an executable designed by those who know better than us ordinary mortals? When I entered the command, I got this lisitng:
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Hi danuke,
In some systems man pages are in /usr/man/ and /usr/local/man/. But on MacOSX (and many other systems), pre-installed man pages are in /usr/share/man/, and the default location of man pages for user-installed commands is /usr/local/share/man/. But, some Unix apps will install man pages in /usr/local/man/ by default.
When I entered the command, I got this lisitng:
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If your MANPATH environment variable is set to the above value, do you know where MANPATH is set to the value? In your shell startup file?
On MacOSX, MANPATH is not set at all by default. Instead, default location of man pages are listed in /usr/share/misc/man.conf. If you look into this file, then you will find the default locations are /usr/share/man, /usr/local/share/man and /usr/X11R6/man. If MANPATH environment variable is set, however, the locations listed in man.conf will be ignored.
If you have already installed many man pages in /usr/local/man/, then
(a) add /usr/loal/man in /usr/share/misc/man.conf, and remove the definition of MANPATH in the shell startup file (such as .bash_profile) or wherever it may be set.
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Core install - no man pages & can not eject cdrom solaris 10

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I marked as Solved but what if we want the man page to be available to all users without the need to edit .bash_profile? Can we create a symbolic link somewhere? (like I do with the /usr/bin) Certainly there's a default folder for man pages.
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Can't view man pages on solaris 8 x86

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I installed solaris 8 on a intel x86 machine not using the webwizard because I wanted a minimal installation.
When I try to view man pages I get the following error:
man manReformatting page. Please Wait...Invalid SGML. File cannot be formatted
sys(cd /usr/share/man; /usr/lib/sgml/sgml2roff /usr/share/man/sman1/man.1 > /tmp/sman_3827) fail!
aborted (sorry)
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 68016 Jan 9 2000 instant
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 1366552 Jan 9 2000 nsgmls
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 3183 Jan 6 2000 sgml2roff
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with regards,
Martijn de Munnik
[email protected]

Depending on how minimal your install was, you may not have installed the man pages.
Take a look in /usr/share/man and see if you have the man pages installed, and if not, install them.

Man pages present, utilities absent? ("at" "talk" others?) [Solved]

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I wasn't sure where to post this so I'm gonna post it here.
I've got man page entries from certain utiilities from the posix programmers manual, like "at" and "talk" but these utilities aren't actually installed,
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Last edited by pseudonomous (2008-10-08 23:30:57)

The pkg 'man-pages' is directly taken from http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/, which is funded by the Linux Foundation. You can see in the link that this pkg provides man pages for system-calls, glibc lib functions, device-files, file-formats and section 7 (miscellanea).
Each pkg (e.g. util-linux-ng) is supposed to provide it's own manual pages. The 'POSIX programmer manuals' are provided to document the fact that how should these utilities behave or be implemented (if somebody wants to implement them...). This doesn't mean that these utilities are installed (they may be if their pkg is installed).
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P.S. POSIX is a *nix standardization effort.
Last edited by Onwards (2009-01-17 18:35:11)

Correct location of man pages?

Hi, I'm still pretty new at the command line. I installed growlnotify to play around with it, but the install script puts the man page in the wrong place (/usr/local/man/man1). I found a post that said it should be moved to /usr/local/share/man/man1, but that directory doesn't exist.
Where is the correct place to move it?
And the command should look like this, right?:
$ mv /usr/local/man/man1/growlnotify.1 CORRECT-DIRECTORY
Thanks for any help.
Message was edited by: aaronfalls

Both locations are both correct. /usr/local is the traditional location for may software packages get installed. But platform A may like /usr/local/man and platform B may like /usr/local/share/man. The Growl developer may have started life on a platform that used /usr/local/man and used that because it what they always use.
Just add the path to the MANPATH environment variable.
NOTE: fink.com puts their man pages in /sw/man. MacPorts.org uses both /opt/local/man and /opt/local/share/man, most likely based on what the OpenSource author choose, and not something MacPorts choose.
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/sw/share/man
/usr/share/man
/usr/local/share/man
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/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.6/man
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Unable to view (most) man pages

... really aggravating:
I've recently completed a Solaris 8 install (Sparc). I've also installed some software from the "companion" cd (in /opt/sfw). I have gobs of man page files in several locations, but I am unable to view most of them. I've tried entering various "man" incantations on a command line, and double-clicking on man page files in the file manager window. Nothing works - from the cmd line for example:
# man -s 1 zip
"Reformatting page. Please wait... done"
or, in File Manager:
Double-click a man file (e.g. zip.1) in File Manager gets this message: "Man page could not be formatted. THe requested Man Page is either not present, or corrupt."
However, there are a few files (in /opt/sfw/man) that, when double-clicked in FIle Manager (or man'd fm the command line) will display.
I've searched the FAQs 'til my eyes are bleeding, but have found no answers. Can someone tell me WTFIGO?
Thanks!

You may want to pkginfo -l SUNWman to see if your main man pages were installed successfully.
Also check:
http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.40.6/REFMAN1/@Ab2PageView/201680?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1
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