On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:47:41PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Martin Emrich wrote: > > | When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM... > > | > > | But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter #man foo nor
> > Sometimes a manpage is good. Sometimes /usr/share/doc/<foo>. > > Sometimes install foo-doc package to get the documentation. > > And sometimes the package just has poor documentation. Some packages > just have the upstream documentation thrown in /usr/share/doc/, which > often conflicts with the actual Debian-specific configuration of the > package. It's frustrating, and there's not much you can do other than > ask around or read the source. Sometimes, true. In that case: # vi /etc/apt/sources.list ... activate deb-src lines for unstable # apt-get update # apt-get source packagename # mc Then you can read all the sources :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
