Thanks Paul are you in the list for 24hours Mohan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Howarth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 12:53 PM Subject: RE: Uninstalling progrms? > 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> > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >
