On Saturday 15 December 2001 15:25, Paul E Condon wrote: > This is the second to last sentence from > /usr/share/doc/task-newbie-help/README.Debian on my newly > installed Potato: > > All the standard docs are available if you install the > task-doc package, so do a apt-get install task-doc now if you > don't have the package installed. > > But there does not seem to be a package with the name > "task-doc" listed by dselect. > Looking at the various packages that are found by a search for > "doc" in dselect, I can well imagine > that the Debian maintainers failed to reach a consensus as to > what dependencies should be > included in such a task. Can some energetic experts recommend > their own lists of what docs a newbie > should have on his machine for immediate reference? There is > so much out there! > > Thanks
Try http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net There is a package available called newbiedoc but I believe it's only available in testing. If you're running stable take a look at the dhelp and dwww packages which are available in stable. After you install these packages you may wish to put your browser start page as (or create a bookmark): file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html which is the index to dhelp. I had to do this because just typing dhelp at the command line didn't work. I believe there is a missing symlink or something. Just type dwww at the command line to get dwww. HTH, Jesse