On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:08:13PM +0900, David wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: > > > >>I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more > >>interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to > >>do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, installing > >>flash, mounting usb drives or ntfs drives and so on, the sort of > >>things found in Martin's Ubuntu How-To. I know that some work in both. > >>I guess I'm just curious if a similar thing already exists for Debian. > >>And if not would it be a useful project to redo the Ubuntu How-To with > >>an eye toward the Debian user. > >> > > >Since all the documentation is already provided on how to do each of > >these with whatever tools are installed on the user's box, the most > >important skill for the new Debian user to have is howto find and use > >the documentation. > > Agreed! > > And not just documentation. > I've thought a number of times that the package description aspect of > the aptitude interface should include the path of the package concerned. > Also on the Debian site package description and the documentation - > surely that makes sense. > > This would help a newbie get on top of the filing scenario much more > quickly. > > I remember struggling to find exactly where packages lived on my system > when I would look in a number of places and see packages with similar > names residing in a couple of them (or more).
The docs are always under /usr/share/doc/[package name] apropos which locate find Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]