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This chapter describes where to find documentation on a common
LINUX distribution. At the moment a RedHat distribution is
assumed, but this is equally applicable to other distributions,
although the exact locations might be different.
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For many proprietary operating systems, the definitive reference
for their operating system are printed texts. For LINUX, much of
documentation is written by the authors themselves and is
included with the source code. A typical LINUX distribution will
package this along with the compiled binaries. Common
distributions come with hundreds of megabytes of
printable, hyper-linked, and plane text documentation. There is
often no need to go the the World Web Wide unless something is
outdated.
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If you have not already tried this, run
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ls -ld /usr/*/doc /usr/*/*/doc /usr/share/*/*/doc \
/opt/*/doc /opt/*/*/doc
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This is a somewhat unreliable way to search for potential
documentation directories.
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This contains information on all hardware drivers except
graphics cards. The kernel has built in drivers for networking
cards, SCSI controllers, sound cards and so on. Hence if you
need to find out if one of these is supported, this is the first
place to look.
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X installs in a separate directory super structure, In here you will find documentation on
all of the graphics hardware supported by X, how to configure X,
tweak video modes, cope with incompatible graphics cards, and so
on. See Section 45.5 for details.
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This is an enormous and comprehensive (and possibly exhaustive) reference
to the TEX typesetting language and the Metafont font generation
package.
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This is a complete reference to the LATEX typesetting language. (This
book itself was typeset using LATEX.)
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This contains some beginners documentation.
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This is an excellent source of laymen tutorials for setting
up almost any kind of service you can imagine. It is worth listing
the contents here to emphasise diversity of topics covered:
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3Dfx-HOWTO Danish-HOWTO Intranet-Server-HOWTO PPP-HOWTO Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO
AX25-HOWTO Distribution-HOWTO Italian-HOWTO PalmOS-HOWTO Sound-HOWTO
Access-HOWTO ELF-HOWTO Java-CGI-HOWTO Parallel-Processing-HOWTO Sound-Playing-HOWTO
Alpha-HOWTO Emacspeak-HOWTO Kernel-HOWTO Pilot-HOWTO Spanish-HOWTO
Assembly-HOWTO Esperanto-HOWTO Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO Plug-and-Play-HOWTO TeTeX-HOWTO
Bash-Prompt-HOWTO Ethernet-HOWTO KickStart-HOWTO Polish-HOWTO Text-Terminal-HOWTO
Benchmarking-HOWTO Finnish-HOWTO LinuxDoc+Emacs+Ispell-HOWTO Portuguese-HOWTO Thai-HOWTO
Beowulf-HOWTO Firewall-HOWTO META-FAQ PostgreSQL-HOWTO Tips-HOWTO
BootPrompt-HOWTO French-HOWTO MGR-HOWTO Printing-HOWTO UMSDOS-HOWTO
Bootdisk-HOWTO Ftape-HOWTO MILO-HOWTO Printing-Usage-HOWTO UPS-HOWTO
Busmouse-HOWTO GCC-HOWTO MIPS-HOWTO Quake-HOWTO UUCP-HOWTO
CD-Writing-HOWTO German-HOWTO Mail-HOWTO README \unix{}-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO
CDROM-HOWTO Glibc2-HOWTO Modem-HOWTO RPM-HOWTO User-Group-HOWTO
COPYRIGHT HAM-HOWTO Multi-Disk-HOWTO Reading-List-HOWTO VAR-HOWTO
Chinese-HOWTO Hardware-HOWTO Multicast-HOWTO Root-RAID-HOWTO VME-HOWTO
Commercial-HOWTO Hebrew-HOWTO NET-3-HOWTO SCSI-Programming-HOWTO VMS-to-Linux-HOWTO
Config-HOWTO INDEX.html NFS-HOWTO SMB-HOWTO Virtual-Services-HOWTO
Consultants-HOWTO INFO-SHEET NIS-HOWTO SRM-HOWTO WWW-HOWTO
Cyrillic-HOWTO IPCHAINS-HOWTO Networking-Overview-HOWTO Security-HOWTO WWW-mSQL-HOWTO
DNS-HOWTO IPX-HOWTO Optical-Disk-HOWTO Serial-HOWTO XFree86-HOWTO
DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO IR-HOWTO Oracle-HOWTO Serial-Programming-HOWTO XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO
DOS-to-Linux-HOWTO ISP-Hookup-HOWTO PCI-HOWTO Shadow-Password-HOWTO XWindow-User-HOWTO
DOSEMU-HOWTO Installation-HOWTO PCMCIA-HOWTO Slovenian-HOWTO
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These are smaller quickstart tutorials in the same vein:
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3-Button-Mouse Coffee IP-Masquerade Mail2News Proxy-ARP-Subnet StarOffice
ADSL Colour-ls IP-Subnetworking Man-Page Public-Web-Browser Term-Firewall
ADSM-Backup Cyrus-IMAP ISP-Connectivity Modules Qmail+MH TkRat
AI-Alife DHCP Install-From-ZIP Multiboot-with-LILO Quota Token-Ring
Advocacy DHCPcd Kerneld NCD-X-Terminal RCS Ultra-DMA
Alsa-sound DPT-Hardware-RAID LBX NFS-Root README Update
Apache+SSL+PHP+fp Diald LILO NFS-Root-Client RPM+Slackware Upgrade
Automount Diskless Large-Disk Netrom-Node RedHat-CD VAIO+Linux
Backup-With-MSDOS Ext2fs-Undeletion Leased-Line Netscape+Proxy Remote-Boot VPN
Battery-Powered Fax-Server Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2 Netstation Remote-X-Apps Vesafb
Boca Firewall-Piercing Linux+FreeBSD News-Leafsite SLIP-PPP-Emulator Visual-Bell
BogoMips GIS-GRASS Linux+FreeBSD-mini-HOWTO Offline-Mailing Secure-POP+SSH Windows-Modem-Sharing
Bridge GTEK-BBS-550 Linux+NT-Loader PLIP Sendmail+UUCP WordPerfect
Bridge+Firewall Hard-Disk-Upgrade Linux+Win95 Partition Sendmail-Address-Rewrite X-Big-Cursor
Bzip2 INDEX Loadlin+Win95 Partition-Rescue Small-Memory XFree86-XInside
Cable-Modem INDEX.html Loopback-Root-FS Path Software-Building Xterm-Title
Cipe+Masq IO-Port-Programming Mac-Terminal Pre-Installation-Checklist Software-RAID ZIP-Drive
Clock IP-Alias Mail-Queue Process-Accounting Soundblaster-AWE ZIP-Install
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These are several online
books in HTML format, such as the System
Administrators Guide, SAG, the Network
Administrators Guide, NAG, the Linux Programmers
Guide, LPG.
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Some packages may install
documentation here so that it goes online automatically if your web server
is running.
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Apache keeps this
reference material online, so that it is the default web page shown
when you install Apache for the first time. Apache is the most
popular web server.
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All packages installed on the system
have their own individual documentation directory. A package
foo will most probably have a documentation directory
/usr/doc/foo. This most often contains documentation released with
the sources of the package, such as release information, feature
news, example code, FAQ's that are not part of the FAQ package,
etc. If you have a particular interest in a package, you should
always scan its directory in /usr/doc or, better still,
download its source distribution.
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These are the /usr/doc directories that contained more
than a trivial amount of documentation for that package. In some
cases, the package had complete references. (For example, the
complete Python references were contained nowhere else.)
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BitchX expect-5.24 guile-1.3 lout pmake-2.1.33 svgalib-1.3.1
ImageMagick-4.2.2 ext2ed-0.1 gv-3.5.8 lsof-4.42 python-docs-1.5.1 taper-6.9
SVGATextMode-1.8 f2c-19970805 ical-2.2 lynx-2.8.1 rhl-alpha-install-addend-en-6.0 texinfo-3.12f
SoundStudio-0.9.1 fetchmail-5.0.0 icewm-0.9.33 mars-nwe-0.99pl15 rhl-install-guide-en-6.0 tin-1.4_990216
TkStep-8.0.4 fileutils-4.0 inn-2.2 mgetty-1.1.14 rpm-3.0 ucd-snmp-3.6.1
abuse-1.10-5 freetype-1.2 ipchains-1.3.8 mod_php-2.0.1 rxvt-2.6.PRE2 uucp-1.06.1
am-utils-6.0 gated-3.5.10 isapnptools-1.18 mod_php3-3.0.7 samba-2.0.3 vim-common-5.3
bind-8.2 gawk-3.0.3 kaffe-1.0.b4 mtools-3.9.1 sendmail wu-ftpd-2.4.2vr17
blt-2.4g gd-1.3 kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.5 ncurses-devel-4.2 sgml-tools xanim-27070
bzip2-0.9.0c ghostscript-5.10 lesstif-0.88.1 netscape-common-4.51 shadow-utils-980403 xbanner-1.31
console-tools-19990302 gimp-1.0.1 lesstif-devel-0.88.1 p2c-1.22 slang-devel-1.2.2 xlispstat-3.52.9
cooledit-3.11.6 gimp-manual-1.0.0 libtiff-devel-3.4 pam-0.66 slrn-0.9.5.4 xntp3-5.93
cvs-1.10.5 glib-1.2.1 libtool-1.2f pgp-2.6.3i-1 spice-2g6 xpm-devel-3.4j
docbook-stylesheets-1.39 glibc-2.1.1 libungif-devel-4.1.0 pine-4.10 squid-2.2.STABLE1 xv-3.10a
dosemu-0.99.10 gtk+-1.2.1 lilo-0.21 pinfocom-3.0 ssh-1.2.26 zsh-3.0.5
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Manual pages were discussed in Section 7.7.
There may be other directory super structures
that contain man pages -- on some other UNIX's
man pages are littered everywhere.
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To convert a man page to PostScript (for printing or
viewing), use for example (for the cp command),
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Info pages were discussed in Section 7.8.
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