Re: Where's the HOWTO's?

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  1 Oct, Kent West wrote about "Re: Where's the HOWTO's?"
> Kent West wrote:
> 
>> According to the FAQOMATIC I'm reading, I should be able to find a howto
>> in /usr/doc/HOWTO if I have installed the doc-linux-text package. So I
>> just installed it, and there is no /usr/doc/HOWTO directory that I can
>> find. I went into dselect to look at the package description, but it
>> doesn't indicate where the files are installed.
>>
>> Did something go wrong with the install (with no error messages that
>> I saw)? Or is the FAQOMATIC wrong, in which case, where can I find the
>> HOWTOs?
>>
>> Thanks!
> 
> Never mind. I did an "updatedb", and then a "locate HOWTO"; they are in
> /usr/share/doc, not /usr/doc.
> 

This is because the FAQOMATIC was written before Debian started
adopting the FHS.  The FSSTND said that doc's should go in /usr/doc and
FHS says docs should go into /usr/share/doc.  There has been LOTS of
debate on debian-devel about how to deal with this. (Read the archive
for all the details.)

One way to check the true locations of where a package put its files is
to do a 'dpkg -L <package>', this will list the contents of the
/var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.list file.

Example:
# dpkg -L hello
/.
/usr
/usr/doc
/usr/doc/hello
/usr/doc/hello/copyright
/usr/doc/hello/changelog.gz
/usr/doc/hello/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/man
/usr/man/man1
/usr/man/man1/hello.1.gz
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/hello
/usr/info
/usr/info/hello.info.gz

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Brian 
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