[HELP]Getting man-db to work on N9/N950
 

Whenever I try to install man-db (which can be found in harmattan dev nokia repo), apt-get wants to remove everything on the phone.
I just need man-db, what do I have to do?

Re: apt-get wants to wipe out EVERYTHING, when trying to install man-db
 

I had to shorten my first post by the way. So the preceding code is not complete. Apt-get wants to remove ALL the libs too.

Re: apt-get wants to wipe out EVERYTHING, when trying to install man-db
 

@Ariadeno,

I guess it's because apparently man-db depends on coreutils, bsdutils, etc. which (probably) requires removing busybox and I bet that everything depends, directly or indirectly, on busybox.

Re: apt-get wants to wipe out EVERYTHING, when trying to install man-db
 

Damn! So, I have no chance to run coreutils etc. with busybox together without messing everything up?

Re: apt-get wants to wipe out EVERYTHING, when trying to install man-db
 

No idea, but it looks like you're not getting man-db anytime soon :)

Given that man-db wants to also pull these:
bsdmainutils bsdutils coreutils debianutils groff-base mktemp

you could try simulating installation of each one individually, e.g.
# apt-get -s install bsdmainutils
# apt-get -s install bsdutils
..

and see which one(s) cause the whole mess.

Honestly, if all you want the man *database* (without the man program, etc.) I cannot imagine how the maintainer managed to massively fvck up the dependencies (but hey, this is debian).

One option is to simply unpack the .deb and live with it..

Re: apt-get wants to wipe out EVERYTHING, when trying to install man-db
 

Actually the man-db package doesn't just contain the manual database, it does also provide the man program(see "apt-cache show man-db"), and the man program is the reason why I want to install man-db. Anyway, I will unpack the deb somewhere in a folder in /opt/ to try. Thanks..

Re: apt-get wants to wipe out EVERYTHING, when trying to install man-db
 

download packages, extract them manually to external folder, and add to PATH. working.

Re: apt-get wants to wipe out EVERYTHING, when trying to install man-db
 

How did you get it to work? I unpacked the .deb files with dpkg -x to a folder I created,/opt/myfiles/.

Then I added this to ~/.bashrc

export PATH=/opt/myfiles/bin:/opt/myfiles/usr/bin/:/opt/myfiles/usr/sbin/:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin

I rebooted the phone but no luck.
"manpath not found" when trying manpath

what do you mean by external folder. A folder outside of the directory tree or /media/External ?

Re: [HELP]Getting man-db to work
 

Bumping...

Re: [HELP]Getting man-db to work on N950
 

edit /etc/profile