Re: man pages not shown

["Ian D. Leroux" <idleroux%fastmail.fm@localhost>]

On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:00 +0200, "Registros Web"
<registros.web%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Matthias Scheler
> <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> wrote:
> > It is available here:
> >
> > http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.1/<ARCH>/binary/sets/text.tgz
> >
> > Just replace "<ARCH>" with the output of "uname -p".
>
> I was wrong then, because I was looking in
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/5.1/i386 (arent they supposed
> to be the same?).
>
> Also, I got '
> ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/5.1/All'
> configured so I can use pkg_add from the console (this is from the
> 'The pkgsrc user's guide' 
> (http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/using.html#finding-binary-
> packages,
> 4.1.2.Installing binary packages), and didnt find it the neither.

The text.tgz install set, including the tools necessary for formatting
man pages, is part of the NetBSD base system.  That's why it was on your
install CD, and why on the FTP servers it appears in the same folder as
the kernel and other install sets.  Pkgsrc (including pkg_add) is for
installing third-party software.

(oh and welcome to NetBSD)

Ian Leroux