Install missing man pages in Linpus Lite

The Aspire One's Linpus lite OS is (bizzarely) missing a lot of documentation, including man pages. You can get some pages installed as follows.

Open a terminal (alt+f2, 'terminal') and type

Code:

sudo yum install man man-pages

There are still many pages missing, to key commands such as find and awk, this makes terminal work a pain. To install missing pages you'll need to plug a usb stick into another linux computer which stores the man pages in /usr/share/man, such as redhat or fedora (I think ubuntu/debian are the same) and copy the missing pages across. The most important commands are in man page sections 1 and 8, and section 5 has important config file info. So on the other computer make a compressed copy of the required files

Code:

tar cpvfz man1.tgz /usr/share/man/man1
tar cpvfz man5.tgz /usr/share/man/man5
tar cpvfz man8.tgz /usr/share/man/man8

Copy the 3 .tgz files (~10mb in total) to the usb stick and plug it into the Aspire One, then uncompress the files by typing

Code:

sudo tar xvf /media/<path to usb stick>/man1.tgz -C /
sudo tar xvf /media/<path to usb stick>/man5.tgz -C /
sudo tar xvf /media/<path to usb stick>/man8.tgz -C /

You might also want to build the whatis database to enable searching using apropos or 'man -k'

Code:

sudo makewhatis

(takes a few minutes)

Now to see a list of available pages for user commands type

Code:

man -k . | grep \(1\)

(replace 1 with 8 for system commands, with 5 for config file formats )

For help on using man type

Code:

man man

The man pages are also available to the desktop help program in Accessories -> Help (If you have the xfce menu available), or type 'yelp &' to launch it from a terminal.

Note to Acer: The total size of my man directory is ~36mb and I have over 10,000 entries. It would be helpful to install this small footprint of documentation rather than waste space with crappy shareware games or a ridiculously bloated openoffice install.