Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 22:40, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> On 09/10/2020 01:11 AM, David wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 15:50, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> >> The manpage
> >> [https://manpages.debian.org/buster/aptitude/aptitude.8.en.html] makes
> >> multiple references to "the aptitude reference manual" but gives no link.
> >> Where do I find it?
> > Under the Help menu when running aptitude interactively, or you can read
> > it directly from the text file
> > /usr/share/aptitude/README
> I had searched for something titled "aptitude reference manual" ;/
> I found [https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/index.en.html]
> which appears to be an HTML version of the "readme".
> I find HTML easier to navigate than text files and I can reformat the
> display to accommodate some vision problems.
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 00:28, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> apt show aptitude-doc-en
As Andrei hints, the HTML version that you prefer is also packaged
for Debian so you can install it locally by installing the package
aptitude-doc-en.
The plain text version displayed by the Help menu of the curses
version of aptitude is installed by the aptitude-common package.
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