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Re: aptitude interface help



On Ma, 16 oct 12, 01:20:02, Neal Murphy wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:34:24 AM james gray wrote:
> > Question:
> > 
> > where in the file system is the individual file
> > 
> > for help in the aptitude interface environment.
> 
> The man pages are typically in /usr/share/man. The man page for aptitude is 
> found in section 8. So, try:
>   zcat /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude.8.gz | \
>     groff -man -T ps | \
>     ps2pdf - aptitude.pdf
> 
> Then use the normal method(s) to print a PDF. You may have to install gzip, 
> groff and ghostscript for this to work (if they aren't already installed).
> 
> While there may be a 'proper' way to do it, it works for me.

But James is not looking for the manpage. The file you are looking for 
can be found in the aptitude sources and it's called help.txt (for the 
English version, it's available in other languages as well).

Kind regards,
Andrei
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