rm misbehavior

Keith keithw at caramail.com
Mon Dec 30 17:06:06 UTC 2024


On 12/30/24 9:24 AM, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi Colin,
> 
> On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 at 14:59, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com 
> <mailto:clanlaw at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 at 14:31, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > What are the names of the package files to install the "info"
>     manual pages? I'd really like to know :)
> 
>     I believe it is the package 'info'
> 
> The package "info" provides the software to view info files. I'm looking 
> to install the info files. Without them, all I get when I use info is to 
> see a copy of the man pages.
> 
> 
Not all packages contain info pages. It depends on whether upstream 
includes them as part their documentation.

If you have it installed, the apt-file program can tell you what 
packages from the repos have info pages included.

$ apt-file --package-only search '.info.gz'


-- 
Keith




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