Re: Documentation only install from .debs?
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 07:57:48PM -0600, Jor-el wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently, if one wants to examine if a particular tool will fix /
> solve a problem, there is no option but to install the package and then
> read the documentation. In such cases, it would be helpful if there were
> an option to install only the documentation. Obviously, adding such a
> feature to dpkg would be worth it only if the packaging of a .deb is
> organized in a manner that would support such a documentation only
> install. Is that the case?
>
> Or perhaps there is an already existing solution to what I am
> looking for?
You can always just extract the filesystem tar archive from a deb and
then extract the documentation from that. Like:
dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile xyz.deb | tar -x ./usr/share/doc
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