On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:54:59 -0700 (MST), der.hans <
PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
> Am 14. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Ric Fischer so:
>
> > Thanks for the instructions. I tried them and the result is that
> > apt-get install synaptic reported it's already installed.
>
> Don't forget that you can try things from the command line :).
>
> synaptic
Yes, I did that and that's how I first saw its interface. But, I
couldn't believe it wasn't in the Gnome menu, until I found it in the
_other_ menu. :-)
> > So, do I learn on the web (synaptic is a rather common word to search
> > for)? Or, is there something I can read already installed on my
> > computer?
>
> "man synaptic" would provide the man page. "man://synaptic" or something
> like that should work on konqueror, maybe other browsers as well. Doesn't
> seem to in mozilla or galeon.
I could swear I'd tried man, but it didn't work. However, it works
now, so maybe I just thought I'd tried it.
> /usr/share/doc/<package_name>/ is another place to look. And, of course,
> once you get a program up and running it might have inline help.
Ahh! Thanks for that.
--
Ric Fischer
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