Thanks for the link, very helpful. Slowly the *nix system of doing things is sorting itself out in my mind.
Now weird missing library messages will make more sense. Rohan -----Original Message----- From: Søren Boll Overgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 6 mei 2002 16:26 To: Rohan Nicholls Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: documentation of libraries On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > Hello there, > > I have a happily running debian distribution, but am getting very > confused when trying to install certain software as it claims to be > lacking all sorts of libraries. > > Is there any documentation about what libraries do what, and where > things are stored on the file system. For instance I seem to have > figured out that important binaries go in /bin, and /sbin (system > stuff). http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/ is probably what you want. Please make your email client wrap lines at some sensible length. If I remember correctly, 76 is the suggested line length. -- Søren O. ,''`. : :' : public key: finger boll <at> db.debian.org `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
