Am i stupid or is there no manual page for section 7 for man in opensuse 11.3? i need this right now. i have to do an exercise saying i should use man (7) to make a manpage for a created program.
does anybody know where i find this man pages? are they in extra package or what?
thx
greetings l1zard
Hello l1zard,
To read man (7) you need to enter these commands:
man man
You’ll get something like this:
Man: find all matching manual pages
* man (1)
man (7)
man (1p)
Man: What manual page do you want?
Man:
Enter 7 and press enter.
Good luck!
Yeah i knew that. i am not that stupid 
i know how to read manpages. but when i enter man man i get something like this:
matthias@tln08:~/Downloads/SyntaxHighlighting> man man
Man: find all matching manual pages (set MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT to avoid this)
* man (1)
man (1+)
Man: Welche Manual-Seite wollen Sie haben?
Man:
Hello l1zard,
Make sure you’ve got the package man-pages installed.
Good luck!
Yeah and forget to mention that ls /usr/share/man/man7 does not list a manual page for man.
ok got it now. thx. but why is this not installed by default anyway?
Hello l1zard,
I don’t know why it isn’t installed by default.
I thought it was installed by default in 11.2.
Good luck!
$ rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man7/man*
man-pages-3.23-2.2.noarch
man-pages-3.23-2.2.noarch
So make sure you have that package installed.
Also you can request a specific section on the command line and skip the prompt:
man 7 man
thx but i already knew that as i told before.
Did you tell us? I don’t see any evidence of it in your postings above. I guess some aliens went and removed some words that you posted to make you look bad. lol!
ken yap wrote:
> l1zard;2192616 Wrote:
>> thx but i already knew that as i told before.
>
> Did you tell us?
no! he did not explain all he knew so we had to guess his knew
nothing…and, then he threw “i know that!” at us…
-=ploink=-
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