On 12/06/11 06:25, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110611_193705, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Sb, 11 iun 11, 10:05:16, Paul E Condon wrote: >>> >>> OT: while checking my memory on this, I noticed a plaintive question >>> from 2007 about the "Aptitude Reference Manual" which seemed to be >>> mentioned in Debian documentation but seemed not to exist. My quick >>> search indicates that this situation still exists in 2011. The >>> aptitude man page references 'Aptitude Reference Manual' but I get no >>> hits for that string while searching www.debian.org, or googling the >>> general web (other than questions about where to find it, over the years).
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/rn01re01.html also:- /usr/share/aptitude/README >> >> apt-cache show aptitude-doc-en > > Thanks, but ... > > This forces me to ask yet another clueless question: When I install a > documentation package, like this one, where are the documentation > files placed? There is an entry corresponding to the package name in > /usr/share/doc/ but there is seldom any clue there as to where the > docucmentation was placed. Is there a general rule? Is there a > special place where *all* documentation is put? Do I open the .deb and > read the install script? Is there a better way (I hope)? I think I am > missing something that is really basic. Help! > /usr/share/doc/packagename also documentation as man, info, and html To see what was delivered:- cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.list | less if you're a member of mlocate $ mlocate packagename | less cron updates the (m/s)locate db (daily from foggy memory) # updatedb (does it when you want # locate (same as mlocate) Hope that helps some. Cheers -- Tuttle? His name's Buttle. There must be some mistake. Mistake? [Chuckles] We don't make mistakes. [Crash!] Bloody typical. They've gone back to metric without telling us. Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4df3d77a.3060...@gmail.com
