(First, my apologies to Bob Proulx, who apparently (according to Eric
anyway) penned the canned reply first, for the misattribution.)
After the latest incident of misdirected Ubuntu requests (in French, no
less), I decide to file a bug against Ubuntu [1].
Ondřej Vašík wrote:
One confusing thing for new-to-linux users is install utility - as
they think that man install would be about installation process of
linux - which is obviously not true as it refers to install utility
manpage. That's at least one of the mails ... others could be caused
by something different.
So... we have one possible explanation. I'm not sure if we want to do
anything about this, however; I could see adding a brief snippet to the
'what is "install"' section that 'install' is NOT general information
about the distro, but (due to help2man) that might be technically
difficult and not worth the return. That said, I'm also not sure if
typing "man install" is why people end up here.
I don't recall ever seeing any replies on-list to the query why people
wound up here erroneously. Has anyone been sent an explanation privately?
At any rate, the nice folks at Ubuntu are now aware of the problem as well.
1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294348
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