[opensuse] Is there a Suse 11.1 downloadable instruction book?
Hi Everyone, In a couple of days I will be moving to a location with very limited internet access, like 1 hour a day or less, and I am wondering if anyone can tell me if there is a good Suse downloadable instruction book or set of web pages, so that I can download it and continue my study of how to work Suse doing things while being off-line most of the time. If so, I can download it today and then I will be set for the next few months. I purchased a Suse Linux for Dummies at the bookstore, but it is 9.3 (that is all they had), and I am finding quite a few differences. For example, the software management tool is totally different, and I could not figure out how to install software that I downloaded. Like that downloaded Thunderbird into a directory, and put that directory on a repository thing whatchamacallit, but when i used the YaST software management tool, it still went to the internet to download the program again even though I had already downloaded it previously. So any help will be great. Thanks George Olson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
In a couple of days I will be moving to a location with very limited internet access, like 1 hour a day or less, and I am wondering if anyone
Ouch, that is going to hurt.. a lot :-P
can tell me if there is a good Suse downloadable instruction book or set of web pages, so that I can download it and continue my study of how to work Suse doing things while being off-line most of the time. If so, I can download it today and then I will be set for the next few months.
If you did a default install, then the openSUSE User Guide is already installed. Point your file manager here: /usr/share/doc/manual/opensuse-manual_en/manual/index.html and you should see the locally installed HTML version of the User Guide. It is also available in PDF, but I think... I think you have to install that separately (it's on the DVD ISO). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 01/17/2009 06:14 PM, George Olson wrote:
Hi Everyone,
In a couple of days I will be moving to a location with very limited internet access, like 1 hour a day or less, and I am wondering if anyone can tell me if there is a good Suse downloadable instruction book or set of web pages, so that I can download it and continue my study of how to work Suse doing things while being off-line most of the time. If so, I can download it today and then I will be set for the next few months.
I purchased a Suse Linux for Dummies at the bookstore, but it is 9.3 (that is all they had), and I am finding quite a few differences. For example, the software management tool is totally different, and I could not figure out how to install software that I downloaded. Like that downloaded Thunderbird into a directory, and put that directory on a repository thing whatchamacallit, but when i used the YaST software management tool, it still went to the internet to download the program again even though I had already downloaded it previously.
So any help will be great. Thanks
George Olson
There is a tremendous amount of documentation available from the DVD. Check out /usr/share/doc/packages for a peak. To have more great documentation, also install the kernel-source package, and you will find lots of great more hardware and kernel centric documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation. There is also manual pages for individual commands, by typing man <command>, i.e. man mount gives you a manual page for that command. There are also several books which could be installed from the DVD. Maybe search for doc in Software Management and you will see what all documentation you could install. Also very important are the release notes, giving version specific info. I believe those all will give you much to read. Also, bookmark the opensuse web site for specific questions, http://en.opensuse.org/ and do a search. Many answers are found there, as well as http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:SDB which is the support database. HTH -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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