On 09/22/2016 09:59 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 02:50:30PM +0100, Brian wrote:
To read the manual
apt-get download lightdm
works every time.
Hmm, well.
$ cd /tmp
$ apt-get download lightdm
$ ls, man dpkg, ...
$ dpkg -x lightdm_1.10.3-3_amd64.deb ldm
$ gzip -dc ldm/usr/share/man/man1/lightdm.1.gz | nroff -man | less
Turns out there is a whole new section in the man page since wheezy!
SEE ALSO
dm-tool(1)
That is the only addition.
$ man dm-tool
No manual entry for dm-tool
Yes, I could do a bunch of crap to try to figure out which package
contains that manual page, extract it, etc. But it doesn't seem like
a useful investment of time, as I would not expect it to describe how
a DM works, or what happens after it has accepted and verified a password.
Suppose all you get is a black screen and a mouse pointer?? <howls> Ric
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