where can I find comprehensive redhat manual?

Ding Li achillis2002 at gawab.com
Sun May 2 20:35:24 UTC 2004


Thanks man.You are really a nice guy.:)

Ding

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

>It would appear that on Apr 30, Ding Li did say:
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>>Do you mean this directory?
>>/usr/share/doc
>>
>>I find lots of info there. Actually I know the place,but I keep 
>>forgetting them.:) You remind me.  Anyway,thanks a lot.
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>Another thing you may want to remember about finding those docs that
>might help if you install a package that happens to put it's docs some
>where else. (While I think most use /usr/share I don't know if there are
>any exceptions) Anyway you can query rpm for where the docs are. It's all
>in the rpm man page.  Though I remember it taking me a while to figure
>this part out so I'll be nice and give you a couple of examples.  
>
>rpm -q -f Command_Path_Name -d
>
>If the command was installed by rpm then one of that should tell you
>where the docs are.  You can get the Command_Path_Name with the which
>command.
>
>On my FC1 I just did this for opera, and f-prot.
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>$ which opera
>/usr/bin/opera
>$ rpm -q  -f /usr/bin/opera -d
>/usr/share/doc/opera/LICENSE
>/usr/share/doc/opera/help
>$ which f-prot
>/usr/local/bin/f-prot
>$ rpm -q  -f /usr/local/bin/f-prot -d
>/usr/share/man/man1/f-prot.1
>/usr/share/man/man8/check-updates.pl.8
>$
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