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Ha ha BW-userx yes you right...it is important lol!!! any ideas?
I have no Idea at the moment, though the thought did accure to me that some things do not have a man page.
well I just checked this and find that I do have -> man ls -- sooo hum, well I never use man pages myself.. help files and google is what I use. going to eat now, maybe I google it to see, though I did leave some links to slackware about man pages in post prior to this one,
did you select install everythiing when you installed Slack? curious y they where not in there from the git go. Because on my Slackware VB install I have man pages hehe
though You Might want to try your hand at installing them off the command line using pkgtool
or:
Code:
su : password
#slackpkg install man-pages
#slackpkg install man
thanks will give this a go...i see you using void..seems interesting,was doing some reading...
do you prefer it to slack? or do you run both?
to learn linux am i better sticking to slack
I've ran through a lot of different Linux disto's I like Slack and Void the best, debain is too heavy for me, it's becoming to main lined, so I left.
I enjoyed Slack a lot, but it is a lot of typing to get things installed, whence they're in it's cool, but with Void, it is just
Code:
xbps-install -Su <app name>
and if they do not have it in their repo, which does not happen a lot, but for somethings all I had to just download the source code.
Code:
$./configure && make && sudo make install, or just make && sudo make install
which you can do with Slack and all other Linux, baiscly I just like that no bloat at all, and one liner installs off a repo more.
Void has been very very good to me. I enjoy it too.
I just put Slack On VirtualBox to be able to try and anwser some of them slack questions--
you can install the base Void, and build off of it too, that is a chalange -- no x just the black terminal mode... oooohhh scary -- hehe
right now it's Void - i3 WM and I forked hsetroot, and enhanced it adding some reallly needed functionally to it and I use that to set random wallpapers, and random BG colors, in some pretty cool looking way. off a complex bash script I wrote over a period of time.
install VB on Slack it can be done then give Void and others a try. If I remember correctly I used oracle's run script off of their sight to Install VB on Slack when I had it installed on my HDD. it was a peice of cake... NS'er
Do give slackBuilds a look first too though when you do this. you are doing this -- its all about the burn baby, no pain no gain.. lol
Ya should have just selected "install everything" on your first install.
Did you try pkgtool ? what method did you use to install ,no wait -- hey ...!!!!!
did you even follow the post install instructions first, reguardless?? Very Important. Then specify install your man pages?
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