On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 17:30 -0500, Shawn Iverson wrote: > If there was one thing that I wish that I knew sooner as a newbie, it > would be "Where in the heck is all the local documentation?" If you're > interested in learning some basic linux commands, such as rpm and yum, > etc. I recommend that you read on. > > Use man on the command line: (snip lots of useful stuff) If you want information about a particular package you've installed, it's also quite useful to use rpm to tell you a list of files in that package; this can often reveal the location of useful README and other documentation files, e.g. $ rpm -ql fedora-release /etc/fedora-release /etc/issue /etc/issue.net /etc/redhat-release /etc/sysconfig/rhn /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources /etc/yum.repos.d /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-devel.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo /usr/share/doc/HTML /usr/share/doc/HTML/css /usr/share/doc/HTML/css/content.css /usr/share/doc/HTML/css/docbook.css /usr/share/doc/HTML/css/layout.css /usr/share/doc/HTML/css/print.css /usr/share/doc/HTML/img /usr/share/doc/HTML/img/corner-bl.png /usr/share/doc/HTML/img/corner-br.png /usr/share/doc/HTML/img/corner-tl.png /usr/share/doc/HTML/img/corner-tr.png /usr/share/doc/HTML/img/header-download.png /usr/share/doc/HTML/img/header-faq.png /usr/share/doc/HTML/img/header-fedora_logo.png /usr/share/doc/HTML/img/header-projects.png /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3 /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/GPL /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/README-Accessibility /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/README-x86-en /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/README-x86-en.html /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RELEASE-NOTES-x86-en /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RELEASE-NOTES-x86-en.html /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-beta /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/autorun-template /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/eula.txt /usr/share/eula/eula.en_US /usr/share/firstboot/modules/eula.py Amongst the files listed above are the release notes and a README, for instance. There are GPG keys there too. $ rpm -ql rpm /bin/rpm /etc/cron.daily/rpm /etc/logrotate.d/rpm /etc/rpm /usr/bin/gendiff /usr/bin/rpm2cpio /usr/bin/rpmdb /usr/bin/rpmquery /usr/bin/rpmsign /usr/bin/rpmverify /usr/lib/rpm /usr/lib/rpm/athlon-linux /usr/lib/rpm/athlon-linux/macros /usr/lib/rpm/config.guess /usr/lib/rpm/config.sub /usr/lib/rpm/convertrpmrc.sh /usr/lib/rpm/i386-linux /usr/lib/rpm/i386-linux/macros /usr/lib/rpm/i486-linux /usr/lib/rpm/i486-linux/macros /usr/lib/rpm/i586-linux /usr/lib/rpm/i586-linux/macros /usr/lib/rpm/i686-linux /usr/lib/rpm/i686-linux/macros /usr/lib/rpm/macros /usr/lib/rpm/mkinstalldirs /usr/lib/rpm/noarch-linux /usr/lib/rpm/noarch-linux/macros /usr/lib/rpm/rpm.daily /usr/lib/rpm/rpm.log /usr/lib/rpm/rpm.xinetd /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh /usr/lib/rpm/rpmd /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_deadlock /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_dump /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_load /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_loadcvt /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_stat /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_svc /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify /usr/lib/rpm/rpme /usr/lib/rpm/rpmfile /usr/lib/rpm/rpmi /usr/lib/rpm/rpmk /usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt-4.3.2 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc /usr/lib/rpm/rpmu /usr/lib/rpm/rpmv /usr/lib/rpm/tgpg /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2 /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/BETA-GPG-KEY /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/CHANGES /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/GROUPS /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/Makefile /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/Makefile.am /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/Makefile.in /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/RPM-GPG-KEY /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/RPM-PGP-KEY /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/builddependencies /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/buildroot /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/conditionalbuilds /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/dependencies /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/format /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/hregions /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/macros /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/multiplebuilds /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/queryformat /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/relocatable /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/rollbacks /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/signatures /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/spec /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/triggers /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2/tsort /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/man/ja/man8/rpm.8.gz /usr/share/man/ja/man8/rpm2cpio.8.gz /usr/share/man/ja/man8/rpmbuild.8.gz /usr/share/man/ja/man8/rpmcache.8.gz /usr/share/man/ja/man8/rpmgraph.8.gz /usr/share/man/man1/gendiff.1.gz /usr/share/man/man8/rpm.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/rpm2cpio.8.gz /usr/share/man/pl/man1/gendiff.1.gz /usr/share/man/pl/man8/rpm.8.gz /usr/share/man/pl/man8/rpm2cpio.8.gz /usr/share/man/pl/man8/rpmbuild.8.gz /usr/share/man/pl/man8/rpmcache.8.gz /usr/share/man/pl/man8/rpmdeps.8.gz /usr/share/man/pl/man8/rpmgraph.8.gz /usr/share/man/ru/man8/rpm.8.gz /usr/share/man/ru/man8/rpm2cpio.8.gz /usr/share/man/sk/man8/rpm.8.gz /var/lib/rpm /var/lock/rpm /var/spool/repackage So we can see that the "rpm" package contains man pages in a few different languages and plenty of documentation in the /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.2 directory. Try it with other packages and see what's there... Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
