🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello all,

I've been trying to set up a functional linux system and being a newbie I 
figure setting up a help system is vital to any progress.. unfortunately I'm 
having quite abit of difficulty setting up the manpage system.
I'm using debian 1.2 but I've been installing most of the packages without the 
package manager (dselect).. I don't think I'm missing anything except maybe 
the man documentation.. (all I have is the copyright and a useless README file 
in /usr/doc/man) 

originally I ran man <command> and got -

man: can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config



so then I tried copying the template (manpath.config.mandbnew -or something 
similar) to manpath.config , did some minor edits (removed all x11 paths since 
I don't have the HD space for it) and ran mandb.. after that I got -

Reformatting man(1), please wait...

sh: /usr/bin/tbl: No such file or directory

sh: /usr/bin/nroff: No such file or directory

I don't know anything about these two files or what they're supposed to do. 
I'm probably missing something really obvious but as such I'm still stuck.
If anyone could help me out and/or point me to a good source of documentation 
it would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
w.wauhcope