HELP..I LOST THE "MAN" BINARY!!

[jd99]

Guys, I am a newbie, and out of frustration I said yes to a conflict while I was installing the bash shell. I now realize what that conflict was. I gave it the /usr/5bin path, and it replaced the man binary with a directory called man. Now I do not have any man command. Can you instruct me how to retrieve it?

THanks
Joe

 

[cfsalmeida]

The binary "man" (/usr/bin/man), is in SUNWdoc package, so you just need to reinstall this package usualy from Solaris CD Software 1 of 2, just mount the CD and go to dir "Product" and add wanted package from list, i.e in Solaris 8 (Release 04/01), with CDrom mounted on /cdrom:
#cd /cdrom/sol_8_401_ia/Solaris_8/Product
#pkgadd -d .
...
RETURN> for more choices, <CTRL-D> to stop display:
71 SUNWdoc Documentation Tools
...
on this release is package number 71:
Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: 71
...

if you don't want install from CD you also can &quot;export&quot; SUNWdoc package from another machine with same Solaris version, and cp and install in target machine.

Hope it helps,

Carlos Almeida,

 

[jd99]

Thanks alot. I already reinstalled, but once I went through a few package installs, I realized thats probably how I would do it.

Thanks again,
Joe