Installing Manual pages in Solaris
In order to view man pages for various commands in Solaris it is necessary to have two packages installed (SUNWman and SUNWdoc).
SUNWman - Online Manual Pages SUNWdoc - Documentation Tools
Using the man man
command we can quickly determine if the the above packages are installed. If man
returns either of the following:
man: command not found
No manual entry for man
then you have one or both of the required packages missing:
You could as easily determined which if any of the packages are already installed by using the pkginfo
command:
# pkginfo SUNWdoc # pkginfo SUNWman
If they are not present in your system you can install them from Solaris media.
Installing from media using vold
The Volume Manager (vold
) daemon in Sun Solaris will automatically detect and mount a CDROM when inserted on Sun Solaris under /cdrom
For this example I am using Solaris 8 media
- Insert the Solaris media into your CD/DVD-Rom drive
- Allow
vold
to automatically mount the media - Install the packages:
# pkgadd -d /cdrom/cdrom0/Solaris_8/Product SUWman # pkgadd -d /cdrom/cdrom0/Solaris_8/Product SUNWdoc
Manually mount media
If you have disabled vold
you can still install the packages by manually mounting the Solaris media and running the pkgadd
command.
- Mount the CD/DVD-Rom:
# mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 /mnt
where c0t6d0s2 is the identifier of your CD/DVD-Rom drive and may differ from system to system. - Install the packages:
# pkgadd -d /mnt/Solaris_8/Product SUNWman # pkgadd -d /mnt/Solaris_8/Product SUNWdoc
Alternately install from the network repository using:
pkgadd -d /path/to/your/solaris/packages SUNWdoc SUNWman