Re: bittornado howto
Hit 'bt' and Tab. You should see a btdownload-gui, or some.
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Kent West wrote:
> Seneca wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 08:51:37AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Perhaps I've been spoiled by other debian packages but I can't figure
> >>out how to run bittornado(-gui).
> >>
> >>There is no man page. There is no menu item. In
> >>/usr/share/doc/bittornado there is a README that contains the line
> >>'Instructions for Unix installation are in INSTALL.unix.txt' which of
> >>course doesn't exist.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> I ran into the same problem yesterday, and only being marginally
> interested in bittorrent, gave up on the programs once I found that I
> couldn't find any real documentation.
>
> >What do you mean by your statement about the lack of manpage? There is
> >no "bittornado" manpage? There are manpages for the various commands
> >included in the bittornado packages.
> >
> > seneca@sophocles:~$ dpkg -L bittornado|grep \/man\/man
> > /usr/share/man/man1
> > /usr/share/man/man1/bttrack.1.gz
> >
> >
> < "etc etc" snip>
>
> The Debian Policy Manual states:
>
> > Each program, utility, and function should have an associated manual
> > page included in the same package. It is suggested that all
> > configuration files also have a manual page included as well. Manual
> > pages for protocols and other auxiliary things are optional.
> >
> > If no manual page is available, this is considered as a bug and should
> > be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System
> >
>
> Perhaps a bug should be filed against the Policy in that also, all
> _packages_ need a man page, even if all the page has is the "See Also"
> section for related man pages.
>
> I mean, I've been using Debian for about four years, but I'm not into
> the nuts and bolts of it on a daily basis, and so it didn't even cross
> my mind to use the "dpkg -L" feature to find man pages. When a person
> installs a package, it's just natural for that person to assume that the
> main program has the same name as the package, or that there's a man
> page for the package name.
>
> --
> Kent
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
>
Rajesh Menon
Cell: 551-208-1253
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~prm225/
Reply to: