Hit 'bt' and Tab. You should see a btdownload-gui, or some. On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Kent West wrote:
> Seneca wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 08:51:37AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > > >>Perhaps I've been spoiled by other debian packages but I can't figure > >>out how to run bittornado(-gui). > >> > >>There is no man page. There is no menu item. In > >>/usr/share/doc/bittornado there is a README that contains the line > >>'Instructions for Unix installation are in INSTALL.unix.txt' which of > >>course doesn't exist. > >> > >> > > > > > > > I ran into the same problem yesterday, and only being marginally > interested in bittorrent, gave up on the programs once I found that I > couldn't find any real documentation. > > >What do you mean by your statement about the lack of manpage? There is > >no "bittornado" manpage? There are manpages for the various commands > >included in the bittornado packages. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -L bittornado|grep \/man\/man > > /usr/share/man/man1 > > /usr/share/man/man1/bttrack.1.gz > > > > > < "etc etc" snip> > > The Debian Policy Manual states: > > > Each program, utility, and function should have an associated manual > > page included in the same package. It is suggested that all > > configuration files also have a manual page included as well. Manual > > pages for protocols and other auxiliary things are optional. > > > > If no manual page is available, this is considered as a bug and should > > be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System > > > > Perhaps a bug should be filed against the Policy in that also, all > _packages_ need a man page, even if all the page has is the "See Also" > section for related man pages. > > I mean, I've been using Debian for about four years, but I'm not into > the nuts and bolts of it on a daily basis, and so it didn't even cross > my mind to use the "dpkg -L" feature to find man pages. When a person > installs a package, it's just natural for that person to assume that the > main program has the same name as the package, or that there's a man > page for the package name. > > -- > Kent > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Rajesh Menon Cell: 551-208-1253 http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~prm225/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
