Re: Where do you RTFM ?
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:47:41PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
> dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> writes:
> > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Martin Emrich wrote:
> > | When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM...
> > |
> > | But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter #man foo nor
> > Sometimes a manpage is good. Sometimes /usr/share/doc/<foo>.
> > Sometimes install foo-doc package to get the documentation.
>
> And sometimes the package just has poor documentation. Some packages
> just have the upstream documentation thrown in /usr/share/doc/, which
> often conflicts with the actual Debian-specific configuration of the
> package. It's frustrating, and there's not much you can do other than
> ask around or read the source.
Sometimes, true. In that case:
# vi /etc/apt/sources.list
... activate deb-src lines for unstable
# apt-get update
# apt-get source packagename
# mc
Then you can read all the sources :)
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