RE: documentation of libraries

["Rohan Nicholls" <Rohan.Nicholls@informaat.nl>]

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:debian@fork.dk]
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.

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