Hello…
I recently created a SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1 VM at susestudio. I am a total SUSE novice…
I seem to be missing several commands from the command line… in particular I do not have the ability to run man.
If I try to man anything I get
bash: man: command not found
I checked, and the man-pages package was not installed, so I did download and install, (and rebooted) but still no luck running man. Any idea would be greatly appreciated!!
The man program comes from the package called man, of course. man-pages just contains, um, the pages. Are you sure you have the man package installed? BTW, SLES has its own forum, look at the main page of this site.
Of course, the woman program comes from venus. 
On 2010-08-08 13:36, ken yap wrote:
>
> The man program comes from the package called man, of course. man-pages
> just contains, um, the pages.
No, it contains the man program, cron scripts, directory structure (empty). The man pages come each
one with the package they document.
However, a novice building his own susestudio distro… that’s a high target.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Well this is for openSUSE, maybe it’s different for SLES, but are you sure you are right?
$ rpm -qf `which man`
man-2.5.2-22.2.x86_64
And have a look at the output of rpm -ql man-pages. Those are the basic Linux man pages. Packages come with their additional man pages.
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If you installed the JEOS (Just Enough Operating System) version, or
started from it, then this may be normal as well since ‘man’ is not
technically needed for an OS to work and when you’re going to completely
minimal it is put on the chopping block. If you start from a regular SLES
template then I believe it is there.
Good luck.
On 08/08/2010 08:36 AM, ken yap wrote:
>
> Well this is for openSUSE, maybe it’s different for SLES, but are you
> sure you are right?
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> $ rpm -qf which man
> man-2.5.2-22.2.x86_64
> --------------------
>
>
> And have a look at the output of rpm -ql man-pages. Those are the basic
> Linux man pages. Packages come with their additional man pages.
>
>
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On 2010-08-08 17:06, ab@novell.com wrote:
> If you installed the JEOS (Just Enough Operating System) version, or
> started from it, then this may be normal as well since ‘man’ is not
Just curious.
How big is the JEOS?
I’m thinking it could be a good starting point for a rescue partition.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Thanks. I couldn’t find man available for download standalone, so I added the URL for the OSS to YAST, and then I was able to see the man package, and I checked it and downloaded/installed. Everything is working now. Thanks for all the replies!