Re: Recommended Debian book?
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:57:28PM -0600, Glenn English wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 23:17 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > wget -O - http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.tar.bz2 | \
> > tar -xvvjf -
> >
> > I hunted for rute for ages and gave up until someone on a newsgroup
> > kindly posted the above link.
>
> That's somewhat more than just a link. Very thoughtful. Thanks.
It's a bit late to tell you this (sorry), but there's actually a .deb.
$ sudo apt-cache show rutebook
Package: rutebook
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/doc
Installed-Size: 8264
Maintainer: Simon Law <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.0-1
Suggests: www-browser, xpdf, gs
Filename: pool/non-free/r/rutebook/rutebook_1.0-1_all.deb
Size: 5599562
MD5sum: c0797b33a2c46976c385fe9a0500a4b7
Description: Linux: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition, an online book
Linux: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition is a book written by Paul
Sheer and published by Prentice Hall. It covers the use of GNU/Linux
for a novice to intermediate user. System administration is covered
as well.
.
Included are both HTML and PDF versions of this document.
[On the other hand, if the book gets revised from time to time
(does it?) your version might be more up to date anyway.]
Cheers,
Geoff
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