[TriLUG] rh-9.0 docs cd

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 18:16, Jim Ray wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance.  I'm doing a fresh install of rh-9.0 onto new hw where I can do the everything flavor instead of the pick and choose to get under the limitation of my previous 6 gb hd.
> 
> Here's the question.
> 
> Whadaya do with the docs cd?  I used cds 1-3 and wanna install all docs so I can reference the man pages or whatever exists to educate my little ole pea brain.
> 

You will get manpages with the standard installation (no docs CD
necessary).  Most packages also put documentation in
/usr/doc/package-1.0/ (where package and 1.0 are the package name and
version).  In addition, "info" pages are installed with many packages,
especially the official GNU/FSF software.  None of this requires the
docs CD; however the docs CD gets you things like the Customization
Guide and Reference Guide, which are also available on the Red Hat web
site.

>From the command line, a quick way to list the documentation for a given
package is "rpm -qd <packagename".  Also, I recommend "pinfo" as a nice
color program for viewing info pages; I find it much more intuitive than
the standard "info" program.  pinfo might not be installed by default
but it's on the CD or available via apt-get or up2date.  pinfo also
reads/views man pages.

--Jeremy