On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 03:31:23PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want to > read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must > drive the original package off the system to install the new package > just for a look, or otherwise jump thru hoops? Assume I've got the 8 > woody CD's and no net connection. I suppose one just takes the .deb > file and uses dpkg-deb to see the contents...?
dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | tar xO ./usr/share/man/man1/foo.1.gz | man -l - (At least, that's what I tend to do. You could create a more convenient shell function for it - or even temporarily extract the whole thing somewhere and add that directory to the front of $MANPATH if you liked.) > By the way, woody has 8 CD's. Where is the source code for all of > them, back on the website? On the CD's? Your CD vendor should be able to supply source CDs if you only have binary ones. Otherwise it's on the net-accessible archive. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
