Re: see the man pages, docs of conflicting packages
--- Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com> 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...?
>
> 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?
> --
> http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780
mc (midnight commander) is really convenient for browsing archives.
Hit <enter> on the deb/rpm/tgz and mc opens it into a virtual file
system.
Hit <F3> on info/man files to view them
Patrick.
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