Fedora Core Support List Unofficial User's Guide (draft 2 - Duncan Lithgow))

[David Curry]

beartooth wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:16:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>>1. Run the 'man' command. Get a terminal window by right clicking on
>>>the desktop. In the window type (without the '$')
>>>$ man <application-name>
>>>Substitute <application-name> with the name of the application you are
>>>having trouble with.
>>>      
>>>
>>info command name
>>locate <stuff you want to know about>
>>rpm -qd <packagename>
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>I'm in the habit of using rpm -q, and also man; so I tried man rpm (wow!),
>and dug for -d. It told me a little in two places about doc[ument(s)] --
>but that tells me nothing, alas! What does rpm -qd do for you in practice
>that rpm -q does not??
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