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From: Ben Crowell on 7 Apr 2010 11:17 On a fresh install of PC-BSD, I have man, but no man pages. E.g.: $ man man No manual entry for man How do I go about installing them?
From: Ben Crowell on 7 Apr 2010 11:29 Ben Crowell wrote: > On a fresh install of PC-BSD, I have man, but no man pages. E.g.: > $ man man > No manual entry for man > How do I go about installing them? Oops, never mind. The icon on the desktop that I was using to open a terminal window wasn't a general-purpose one, it was putting me in a jail. Lots of functionality broken. When I open a normal terminal window, everything works.
From: mechanic on 7 Apr 2010 14:27 On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:29:45 -0700, Ben Crowell wrote: > Oops, never mind. The icon on the desktop that I was using to open > a terminal window wasn't a general-purpose one, it was putting me > in a jail. You're not the first to fall for that one - documentation on this jail/ports stuff is non-existent which doesn't help either. -- mechanic
From: SS on 7 Apr 2010 16:55 On 2010-04-07 20:27:51 +0200, mechanic said: > On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:29:45 -0700, Ben Crowell wrote: > >> Oops, never mind. The icon on the desktop that I was using to open >> a terminal window wasn't a general-purpose one, it was putting me >> in a jail. > > You're not the first to fall for that one - documentation on this > jail/ports stuff is non-existent which doesn't help either. Yeah, one of the reasons why I haven't embraced PC-BSD yet (still on Ubuntu 9.10). Actually, that and KDE.. I've run GNOME so long I find KDE to be illogical... SS
From: none on 8 Apr 2010 12:51
SS wrote: > On 2010-04-07 20:27:51 +0200, mechanic said: > >> On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:29:45 -0700, Ben Crowell wrote: >> >>> Oops, never mind. The icon on the desktop that I was using to open >>> a terminal window wasn't a general-purpose one, it was putting me >>> in a jail. >> >> You're not the first to fall for that one - documentation on this >> jail/ports stuff is non-existent which doesn't help either. Yeah, what's the purpose of the whole thing? > > Yeah, one of the reasons why I haven't embraced PC-BSD yet (still on > Ubuntu 9.10). Actually, that and KDE.. I've run GNOME so long I find KDE > to be illogical... Actually one reason I'm testing the waters for a switch back from Ubuntu to BSD is that in the most recent versions of Ubuntu, more and more functionality is broken if you don't use Gnome. I prefer fluxbox as my wm, and I'm experiencing constant hassles with things that only work properly if you use Gnome. My favorite bug of this type is this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xsplash/+bug/504403 The problem traces back to a function called temporary_hack_for_initial_fade(). To me it's emblematic of the poor quality control in the recent releases of Ubuntu that they're releasing code with functions named temporary_hack_for...(). |