[LBo] Are HOWTOs installed? - Exercise chapter 3

[Anita Lewis]

On 11/16/2006 03:24 PM Rafi Gabzu wrote:
>
> 1. How can I tell if the HOWTOs are installed in my system ?
This depends a bit on the distro of Linux you are using.  If it is
Debian-based try:

dpkg -l |grep doc-linux (or try just 'doc' instead of 'doc-linux')

If you have the Linux Docs installed, you should get output from that. I
have doc-linux-text installed, but there is an html version as well as
various languages.  To show where the files are:

dpkg -L name-of-doc-linux-package-from-above-output

You may need to repeat that command with a pipe to less

dpkg -L package-name | less


If you have SUSE or Fedora or other rpm, something like:

rpm -qa |grep doc-linux

Also you could try:

locate howto
locate HOWTO

or

cd /usr
find -name *HOWTO*
find -name *howto*

There will be more than those in the specific Linux Documents package,
but you should see a bunch of files in something like
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO or howto.

Anita