*- On 1 Oct, Kent West wrote about "Re: Where's the HOWTO's?" > Kent West wrote: > >> According to the FAQOMATIC I'm reading, I should be able to find a howto >> in /usr/doc/HOWTO if I have installed the doc-linux-text package. So I >> just installed it, and there is no /usr/doc/HOWTO directory that I can >> find. I went into dselect to look at the package description, but it >> doesn't indicate where the files are installed. >> >> Did something go wrong with the install (with no error messages that >> I saw)? Or is the FAQOMATIC wrong, in which case, where can I find the >> HOWTOs? >> >> Thanks! > > Never mind. I did an "updatedb", and then a "locate HOWTO"; they are in > /usr/share/doc, not /usr/doc. >
This is because the FAQOMATIC was written before Debian started adopting the FHS. The FSSTND said that doc's should go in /usr/doc and FHS says docs should go into /usr/share/doc. There has been LOTS of debate on debian-devel about how to deal with this. (Read the archive for all the details.) One way to check the true locations of where a package put its files is to do a 'dpkg -L <package>', this will list the contents of the /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.list file. Example: # dpkg -L hello /. /usr /usr/doc /usr/doc/hello /usr/doc/hello/copyright /usr/doc/hello/changelog.gz /usr/doc/hello/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/man /usr/man/man1 /usr/man/man1/hello.1.gz /usr/bin /usr/bin/hello /usr/info /usr/info/hello.info.gz -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
