Good Morning, Ok, I've been going through the links you sent me. I installed all the software from
Chapter 1. Getting started The Right Way I got stuck again on the man/info thing, which conduces to this: I can use man with no problem, but it usually gives me way more info than I can use or figure out, except in the rare cases when they give example commands at the end. Info is supposed to give more info still, but I have never been able to figure out how to coax it into doing anything useful. ( I went through four or five info tutorials and still couldn't figure out anything useful.) I think I'm probably just too retarded to be able to use info. So then I decided to forge ahead. I found the latest orphaned package, which was png23d and installed it, which seemed to work, maybe. I got the following: Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ... ====== How can you help? (doc: https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help ) ====== New packages where help is needed, including orphaned ones (from WNPP): - png23d - https://bugs.debian.org/1079265 - O (Orphaned) ----- Show old opportunities as well as new ones: how-can-i-help --old ----- at the end of the install messages. Then I went back to the instructions, and it said to get the upstream source code in the form of a tar.gz file. My question is this, wouldn't I just find a git repository and clone it these days? Sincerely, Mark Opie Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. On Sunday, August 25th, 2024 at 10:38 AM, dblmr <[email protected]> wrote: > Good Morning, > > I have a good familiarity with basic operation of emacs and git, and have > dabbled in various programming languages including Perl, Shell scripting, > Python and many others. My Spanish is very good, and English is my native > language. I could certainly do menial programming tasks, or help with > documentation or editing web pages. I love Debian software and values. If > anyone would like to discuss ways I could potentially help out, feel free to > email me directly. > > Sincerely, > Mark Opie > > Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.
