Free Book for learning Ubuntu /Linux

[Dave Scott]

Florian Diesch wrote:
> SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <i-ubux at synass.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 00:41 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
>>     
>>> anuj <anuj.tomar at alabot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I am new bee and I really want to clear my fundamentals for Ubuntu/Linux 
>>>> as I am training to become admin for ubuntu servers
>>>>
>>>> Pl advice if there free books /Guides on net which i can go through
>>>>         
>>> Install "rutebook" and have a look at /usr/share/doc/rutebook/
>>>       
>>>    Florian
>>>       
>> Hi Florian, 
>> Your rutebook hint is interesting ! ;-)
>> It installs and there is a rutebook.pdf.gz with abolutely not entries or
>> icons on the desktop !!
>> How can a new bee get these things readable then ? ;-(
>>     
>
> For me it just works in nautilus. If it doesn't for you open a terminal
> window and type
>   gzip -c  /usr/share/doc/rutebook/rutebook.pdf.gz > ~/Desktop/rutebook.pdf
> (that's one line).  This copies a decompressed version of
> /usr/share/doc/rutebook/rutebook.pdf.gz named rutebook.pdf to your
> desktop.
>
> Maybe typing
>   see /usr/share/doc/rutebook/rutebook.pdf.gz
> in a terminal window works, too. 
>   
This was interesting enough that I tried to find this entry in the 
repository with Add/Remove programs in ubuntu 8.04 and it wasn't there. 
Can someone be a bit more specific as to where this item will be found?
Thanks,
Dave

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David E. Scott
DaveScott at Columbus.rr.com
Software Development


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