Originally Posted by
bodhi.zazen
LOL
No, simply use man
That doesn't answer any question that starts with the word 'why.' Furthermore, laughing at someone who is asking a serious question is unprofessional. I am surprised that someone with the title 'ubuntu forums admin' would be so disrespectful.
Originally Posted by
sisco311
You don't. cpp is not a dependency of bsdmainutils.
It is a dependency of bsdmainutils, according to the package description I have.
Code:
moses@equius:~$ apt-cache show man-db |grep Depends:
Depends: groff-base (>= 1.18.1.1-15), bsdmainutils,
debconf (>= 1.2.0) | debconf-2.0,
dpkg (>= 1.9.0), libc6 (>= 2.8),
libgdbm3 (>= 1.8.3), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
moses@equius:~$ apt-cache show bsdmainutils |grep Depends:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3),
bsdutils (>= 3.0-0), debianutils (>= 1.8), cpp
Thank you for pointing out that cpp is the preprocessor and not the compiler. I feel better about installing it if it comes to that. To satisfy my own curiosity, I think I'll build something small to replace /usr/bin/man
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