Installing man pages on Solaris 10

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1

I am doing some new SOlaris Installs and the man pages do not seem to be included. Do you know how I can add them after the fact?

Thanks!
Aaron

2

Install the SUNWman package from your installation media.

Cheers
ZB

3

I installed that package but I still can't view man pages. All I get is `man: not found'.

4

Looks like "man" isn't installed. You'll need to install SUNWdoc as well if man's not in /usr/bin. To see if SUNWdoc is installed, run:

pkginfo SUNWdoc

You should get something like:

$ pkginfo SUNWdoc
system SUNWdoc Documentation Tools

Carl

5

Great, thanks.

Is it common practice to install the contents on the installation CDs to the HDD? If so, where (and is it just the Products or the entire CD hierarchy)?

6

Unfortunately in my dealings, most of the systems I see have a whole bunch of unnecessary (for a server) garbage installed. I spent quite some time building up a package deleting list for the servers at the last contract.

A couple of servers I've seen have minimal installations but in general, it seems most people install the full package if not the full OEM package.

This guy has a nice site on suggested minimal installations and what to delete. I've provided some updates for the Solaris 8 side and now that I'm on a new contract, I'm looking in to some server reduction here too.

Carl