Re: and i thought windows made a mess of files...

John Salerno wrote:

Here's another example: I just installed the vim-doc package (HTML documation for vim), but now how do I access this? I don't know where it is or what to type to launch it! The properties in Synaptic list a bunch of directories, so that's no help. whereis vim-doc didn't help because that isn't the name of the file apparently. I don't know how to access it now.

In most cases the packages don't have the same name as the binary that comes with it.

vim-doc is a documentation package for vim, it don't have any binary files, it has only some text files that tells you how to use vim.

Open an terminal window or switch over to console and type:

If you use a distro using deb:
dpkg -L vim-doc

If you use a distro using rpm:
rpm -qil vim-doc


You will get a list of all files that was included in the packages, with the full path. The RPM query will even print out other info about the package.


Most programs doc files are usually stored in /usr/share/doc


//Aho
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