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Re: Readable Bash Primer



On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:02:46AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:57:53PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > That looks really good, just what I was looking for. A question though. What 
> > do I type in the browser (Konqueror for example) to get it to display?
> > 
> > btw. I have installed it, but not sure how to access it.
> 
> Open the file
> 
> /usr/share/doc/abs-guide/html/index.html
> 
> in your browser. I realize that this is in no way obvious.
> 
> Sometimes when you're looking at a package and thinking
> "What the heck do I do with this?", your first step should
> be to look in /usr/share/doc/[package-name]. If that doesn't
> help, often the last step is to do
> 
> dpkg -L [package-name] |less
> 
> which will display all the files that [package-name]
> installed. Sometimes that will give you a clue about what it
> does and where to run it from.
> 
IIRC, if you ise doc-book, it also takes care of "registering" all the
documentation-related packages on your system so that you can browse
them a little more easily.  I don't use it, so I am not sure, however.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
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http://www.connexer.com

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