Re: Debian Questions on apt-get
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Scott Ferguson
<prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/06/11 06:25, Paul E Condon wrote:
>>
>> This forces me to ask yet another clueless question: When I install a
>> documentation package, like this one, where are the documentation
>> files placed? There is an entry corresponding to the package name in
>> /usr/share/doc/ but there is seldom any clue there as to where the
>> docucmentation was placed. Is there a general rule? Is there a
>> special place where *all* documentation is put? Do I open the .deb and
>> read the install script? Is there a better way (I hope)? I think I am
>> missing something that is really basic. Help!
>
> /usr/share/doc/packagename
> also documentation as man, info, and html
>
> To see what was delivered:-
> cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.list | less
For the latter, you can also run
dpkg -L <package>
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