Re: debian how-to

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:08:13 +0900
David <davidpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote:

I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more
interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would
like to do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability,
installing flash, mounting usb drives or ntfs drives and so on,
the sort of things found in Martin's Ubuntu How-To. I know that
some work in both. I guess I'm just curious if a similar thing
already exists for Debian. And if not would it be a useful
project to redo the Ubuntu How-To with an eye toward the Debian
user.


Since all the documentation is already provided on how to do each
of these with whatever tools are installed on the user's box, the
most important skill for the new Debian user to have is howto
find and use the documentation.

Agreed!

And not just documentation.
I've thought a number of times that the package description aspect
of the aptitude interface should include the path of the package
concerned. Also on the Debian site package description and the
documentation - surely that makes sense.

This would help a newbie get on top of the filing scenario much
more quickly.

I remember struggling to find exactly where packages lived on my
system when I would look in a number of places and see packages
with similar names residing in a couple of them (or more).
Regards,

--
David Palmer
Linux User - #352034


I moved to Linux, from Windoze NT, back in 1999. One of the very
first things I did, in trying to learn about Linux, was to learn some
very basic commands.

Did you know that Linux keeps a database of every file stored on your
hard drive(s)? There are commands to find those files.

locate - list files in databases that match a pattern
# locate header.php
lists every file named header.php complete with path

whereis - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a
command
# whereis whereis lists every file named "whereis" on your hard disk,
of course, complete with path

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