Local Help

William Scott Lockwood III scott at guppylog.com
Tue Feb 12 22:07:16 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/12/2013 03:42 PM, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
>
>> Did you look under |/usr/share/doc? |You may also want to search the
>> repo's for documentation packages, depending on what specifically it is
>> that you are looking for. The apt-cache command is good for this, for
>> example 'apt-cache search \\-doc | less'. You can also find packages
>> installed on your system already fairly easily that contain
>> documentation with dpkg. For example, 'dpkg -l | grep ^ii | grep \\-doc'
>> will return a list of installed packages that end in doc. Lastly, if you
>> are having trouble with a particular command, try 'man <command_name>'.
>>
>
> During a live-cd session I noticed a help button on the tool bar. Maybe,
> like me, he's wondering where it went. It seemed useful, like having"Don't
> panic!" there.  :) Ric


Yes, and I did my best to help him. Your point?

-- 
Regards,
W. Scott Lockwood III
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