Re: see the man pages, docs of conflicting packages
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.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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