# Is there a FreeBSD Manual Pages offline package available in html format for download?



## sdf (Aug 26, 2018)

Hello,

Is there a FreeBSD Manual Pages offline package available in html format for download?

Thanks.


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## Bobi B. (Aug 26, 2018)

Why would you need that? You can read man pages on FreeBSD manual pages browser, you can host your own copy, or you might convert man pages to HTML on your own FreeBSD box (using textproc/man2html, for example).


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## ShelLuser (Aug 26, 2018)

Not that I know off. What is available is the source code to the entire documentation project, you'll find that on svn.freebsd.org/doc/head. This contains all the available documentation, but you'll need textproc/docproj to actually build and install it.

However, it doesn't contain the manualpages. That's why you'd normally use the man command.


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## sdf (Aug 26, 2018)

Bobi B. said:


> Why would you need that? You can read man pages on FreeBSD manual pages browser, you can host your own copy, or you might convert man pages to HTML on your own FreeBSD box (using textproc/man2html, for example).



This makes it easy to view offline on Windows.
I downloaded it from https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi/help.html. But found it seems to be different from https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi.


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## mikey777 (Apr 19, 2020)

An Older thread but perfect for what I'm looking for...
I tried some of the links, they don't do anything.


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## drhowarddrfine (Apr 20, 2020)

mikey777  All of those links do "something" so haven't a clue what you mean.


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## chrbr (Apr 20, 2020)

Dear mikey777,
you can follow the advice in post#4. You can copy&paste the address of the svn server in the browser to see what you will get. It is the source code of the documentation. The port can convert it to html.

You could also use www/wwwoffle if it is about not to have to be online for reading the docs. It stores visited pages and show them out of the cache when you are offline.


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