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by **Dave Smi** » Sat, 28 Dec 1996 04:00:00

Man (or Xman) are not working. I get a cuople of "command not found"
errors, one referring to grof, the other one I can remember. I
thought it was a package I haven't installed, so I ran pkgtool, which
asked me the source directory, then quit, and returned me to the
prompt. No error messages, just a quit.

So,
a) What packeges am I missing for man to work, and
b) why isn't pkgtool working ?

Can you please CC a reply to my email. Thanks.

by **Dave Smi** » Sun, 29 Dec 1996 04:00:00

Quote:>Man (or Xman) are not working. I get a cuople of "command not found"
>errors, one referring to grof, the other one I can remember. I
>thought it was a package I haven't installed, so I ran pkgtool, which
>asked me the source directory, then quit, and returned me to the
>prompt. No error messages, just a quit.
>So,
>a) What packeges am I missing for man to work, and
>b) why isn't pkgtool working ?
>Can you please CC a reply to my email. Thanks.

BTW, as I forgot to mention, this is Slackware 3.1 that I'm having
trouble with.
Cheers,
--Dave
|Dave Smith - Elec. Eng. Student (3rd Year) | Programme Controller |

|URL: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~esufl/ | Warwick |
"You Can Run, But You Can't Hide Your Legs" - Mr. Don & Mr. George

by **Toni** » Mon, 30 Dec 1996 04:00:00

> >Man (or Xman) are not working. I get a cuople of "command not found"
> >errors, one referring to grof, the other one I can remember. I
> >thought it was a package I haven't installed, so I ran pkgtool, which
> >asked me the source directory, then quit, and returned me to the
> >prompt. No error messages, just a quit.

> >So,
> >a) What packeges am I missing for man to work, and
> >b) why isn't pkgtool working ?

> >Can you please CC a reply to my email. Thanks.

> BTW, as I forgot to mention, this is Slackware 3.1 that I'm having
> trouble with.
> Cheers,

Hi Dave, you missed to install the "groff" package, it's needed
by "man" and "xman". Use "pkgtool" from slackware for install it.

Good luck.

by **Toni** » Mon, 30 Dec 1996 04:00:00

> Hi Dave, you missed to install the "groff" package, it's needed
> by "man" and "xman". Use "pkgtool" from slackware for install it.

> Good luck.

Hi Dave, I missed the fact that your "pkgtool" isn't working too.
I'm human and can fail, I simply readed too fast your posting.

Is a way to install "groff" without "pkgtool" (assuming you have
"tar" installed). I assume you have a CDROM, change the source
directories if not.

Mount your CDROM under /cdrom or wathever you have as mount point.

Change to the root directory of your root partition:

cd /

Execute the following command:

tar -xzvf /cdrom/slakware/ap2/groff.tgz

It will install the groff package in apropiate directories. It
will create a /install directory also. execute:

cd /install; sh doinst.sh; cd /

After this you can remove the /install directory with:

rm -R -f /install

I don't know for which reason pkgtool is not working, but the
procedure described above is an alternative to pkgtool.

Hope it helps.

by **Stewart C. Russel** » Mon, 30 Dec 1996 04:00:00

>> BTW, as I forgot to mention, this is Slackware 3.1 that I'm having
>> trouble with.
>Hi Dave, you missed to install the "groff" package, it's needed
>by "man" and "xman". Use "pkgtool" from slackware for install it.

I had enormous problems with circular links (eg tbl --> gtbl --> tbl).
In the end I had to go through most of the /usr/bin directory removing
stale links. It works now.

--

"Hang on... This is the real thing...
The truth, my friend, and nothing but the truth" - Mervyn Peake

by **Dave Bro** » Tue, 31 Dec 1996 04:00:00

>...
>>b) why isn't pkgtool working ?

I've had problems with pkgtool in the past, as well, and never got around to
looking into it. My solution in Slackware has been to use "setup", which has
always worked. You just have to know which disk set has the package you want.
(And then skip all the configuration stuff at the end of setup.)

--
Dave Brown Austin, TX

by **Dave Smi** » Wed, 01 Jan 1997 04:00:00

>>Man (or Xman) are not working. I get a cuople of "command not found"
>>errors, one referring to grof, the other one I can remember. I
>>thought it was a package I haven't installed, so I ran pkgtool, which
>>asked me the source directory, then quit, and returned me to the
>>prompt. No error messages, just a quit.
>>So,
>>a) What packeges am I missing for man to work, and
>>b) why isn't pkgtool working ?
>>Can you please CC a reply to my email. Thanks.
>BTW, as I forgot to mention, this is Slackware 3.1 that I'm having
>trouble with.

Fixed it. I wasn't using pkgtool properly.

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man & pkgtool don't work.

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