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Title: Not found or missing manpages

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Not found or missing manpages

Symptom:

The commands man, whatis, apropos announce that no manpage is available about this topic . An example would be the programme tar.

Cause:

In the last times more and more programme authors offer a (detailed) auxiliary page, but no more (traditional UNIX) manpages. With this topic is especially concerned GNU software, whose authors produce part of the programme documentation still only in GNU-info format.

This is therefore something, that is due to the authors, not to a S.u.S.E.'s negligence during the CD construction.

Solution:

Most of the programmes offer with the options -h or --help a more or less detailed programme call description.

In GNU programmes that have a documentation in the GNU-info format, it must be used a info-viewer (info, emacs, xinfo) .

Further more we make an effort in S.u.S.E. to extract relevant documentation from the source packet into a packet and set it to the applyer's disposal. You will find these documentations generally in the directory /usr/doc/packages (for the single packets) or in /usr/doc. Further more be referred to the HowTos and the FAQs, that after the corresponding packets' installation with YaST are to be found in /usr/doc/howto or /usr/doc/faq.

Should you still not have enough information for a packet at your hands, please install the corresponding source packet. Most of the times there is not more information than there for a programme.

If you however have the impression, that we have forgotten a manpage during the CD construction, we ask you to please send us a short E-Mail. We would be very thankful to you for such a hint.

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Keywords: MAN, MAN PAGES, HILFE, HELP, TAR, GNU, INFO

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