man pages

[gruso]

Ah, I should have said. Running Hotfix 5 RC2 from an ext2 SD card.

Ah, everything's hunky dory in here then.

Maybe I should pin a thread with some info for Linux newbies, links to basic info on wiki etc. Then we don't have to worry about typing out disclaimers every time we want to give some opkg advice.

 

[Mash]

Maybe I should pin a thread with some info for Linux newbies, links to basic info on wiki etc. Then we don't have to worry about typing out disclaimers every time we want to give some opkg advice.

Sounds like a very good idea to me.

 

[aranson]

Great!


now begins the long downloading session from slow servers. Looks like everything is on track. Thanks guys! I really appreciate it!

 

[Vitel]

Thanks Gentoo, I have man pages by default. Ha-ha

 

[emilio]

Is there a way to use the man pages with OS on NAND?

 

[_wb_]

Just be careful not to fill your NAND. If you just install man itself, and then download the individual *-doc packages when you need them, it should be fine. You probably don't actually need the man pages for everything, so just install those you need. Maybe it would be useful if someone could make a list of the most useful *-doc packages.


I recommend running the OS from SD though, it makes your life much easier.

 

[antisol]

Resurrecting a very old thread because I was trying to get man installed on my pandora. I found this thread and had some corrections and further tips

1) The links provided in Mash's post no longer work, but I was able to find the .ipk files at the following URLs (I also included the man-doc package so that I can do 'man man'):

http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/2011.03/ipk/glibc/armv7a/base/man_1.5p-r5.6_armv7a.ipk
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution....libc/armv7a/base/man-doc_1.5p-r5.6_armv7a.ipk
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution....libc/armv7a/base/groff_1.20.1-r3.6_armv7a.ipk

I looked into it a little bit and I think that the reason 'opkg install man' doesn't work is that man is not included in the openpandora repos at http://openpandora.org/feeds/unstable/armv7a/

2) Also, there's a fairly easy way to install as many manpages as you like onto your SD card without it taking up much space on your NAND at all: symlinks!

With this method the binaries will be installed on NAND, but all the manpages will be put on your SD card:

sudo mv /usr/share/man /path/to/sdcard/
sudo ln -s /path/to/sdcard/man /usr/share/man

This moves the manpage data onto your SD card and then creates a symlink so that man can still find it.

Once you've done this you can install as many -doc packages as you like and it'll take up no space on your NAND. I just installed about 450 manpages using WizardStan's "opkg | sed | xargs" command.

Obviously, you won't be able to use man unless the correct SD card is inserted/mounted at the correct location.

Hope this helps someone!