manpages

This package contains the Linux man pages for all chapters except 1, 6 and 8. Some more information is given in the 'Announce' file.

Install by copying to your favourite location. "make install" will just copy then to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. "make" will move the pages from this package that are older then the already installed ones to a subdirectory 'not_installed', then remove old versions(compressed or not), compress the pages, and copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8].

Note that you may have to remove preformatted pages.

Note that sometimes these pages are duplicates of pages also distributed in other packages. This has been reported about dlclose.3, dlerror.3, dlopen.3, dlsym.3(found in ld.so), about resolver.3, resolv.conf.5 (found in bind-utils),and about password.5, and mailaddr.7. Be careful not to overwrite more up-to-date versions.

Reports on further duplicates are welcome.

Formerly present and now removed duplicates:

*_module.2, get_kernel_syms.2 (found in modutils-2.1.*),

exports.5 (found in nfs-server-2.2*),

fstab.5, nfs.5 (found in util-linux-2.12*),

lilo.8, lilo.conf.5 (found in lilo-21.6*).

Note that the pages that come with GUN fileutils are really help texts (indeed, are generated automatically from help texts), and worse than worthless. Without them people would have good detailed man pages, such as those found here in man1.

As it is, many distributions install these "man pages", to the detriment of their users.