Re: see the man pages, docs of conflicting packages

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>]

>> 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...?

C> dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | tar xO ./usr/share/man/man1/foo.1.gz | man -l -

I see in emacs21 dired one need only hit v on a .deb and it you are
then browsing the contents.  However you still need to do ! zcat *
|nroff -man|col -b or something.
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