-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2009-12-22 a las 22:11 -0600, Leslie Turriff escribió:

From: Leslie Turriff <> To: Carlos E. R. <>

Mmm... although your reply came in private, I think I'll reply to the list, as there is no private information here, and you ask a question which might be of general interest.

On Monday 21 December 2009 18:22:32 you wrote:

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On Monday, 2009-12-21 at 16:26 -0600, Leslie Turriff wrote:

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There's a user manual for YaST? That's news to me; I've been looking for one since I started using SuSE 6.3. Can you give me a pointer to it? I would greatly appreciate that.

You have been using SuSE since 6.3 and you don't know the manual? Shame on you. Thank you. :-)

Argh, I should had put a smiley in there. O:-)

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Install the manual first, of course. There is an rpm for it

Aha! All this time I have been looking for /YaST/ manuals! Silly me; of course, the YaST manuals do not have the term 'yast' in their names anywhere. :-)

Quite true. But I think it is in the documentation section of the installable packages in yast, I think. I have the custom of looking there to see what is available. On old versions there were some interesting books, even some in Spanish.

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. Or else, look it up in google, it is also online, html and/or pdf. In 6.3, by the way, you could also get the manual in German, Spanish, French, and Italian, I think. It came printed with the box, too. Yes, I still have the printed copies from 6.3, 7.2 and 8.1, and they are often helpful, though now out of sync with the current distro, of course. I believe that the printed manual was eliminated after that, and I was never able to find it in the distribution, much like the HowTo stuff, which I finally found, and which I now add to my Konqueror bookmarks each time I upgrade.

Yes, it went out when Novell went in, more or less. It is a sad loss to me, the books were really good. I miss the paper books.

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Note: The reference to "look it up in google" is because I don't have the link myself. To tell you the exact link I would have to google for it, so it seems appropiate to delegate that work on you.

So written lest somebody else accuses me of not giving proper and kind enough advice. That's okay. I find your responses generally provide the level of detail that I am looking for. :-) At risk of straining your patience, I do have one more question, though: The opsuse-manual refers to /Reference/ for detailed information in numerous places, yet I have not been able to locate it either, though I found desktop icons for it in /usr/share/susehelp/meta/, and find no references to an RPM containing it in the YaST Software Management tool.

Ah. As I have all of them installed, it is a simple matter of listing the directory. Let me see... cer@nimrodel:~> ls /usr/share/doc/manual/ apparmor-admin_en opensuse-gnomequick_en opensuse-kdequick_en opensuse-manual_en opensuse-manual_en-pdf Mmm... ¿reference? Now, which would that be... :-? Ah, yes, look: cer@nimrodel:~> ls /usr/share/doc/manual/opensuse-manual_en-pdf APPARMOR-admin_en.pdf opensuse-gnomequick_en.pdf opensuse-kdequick_en.pdf opensuse-reference_en.pdf opensuse-startup_en.pdf It is inside the "opensuse-manual_en-pdf" directory, and probably the html version is in opensuse-manual_en, too. Yes, it is: /usr/share/doc/manual/opensuse-manual_en/manual/book.opensuse.reference.html Found! By the way. Time ago, apache came with a sample configuration that, amongst other things, had links to the documentation in the default page for the "server". There also was "search" (via "dig") available on all docs, man pages, howtos, etc. It was handy. This setup has, I think, dissapeared. - -- Saludos Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksyBjIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WedwCfbsLEEmAGjAeMtx1rBUAy1ttx k0AAn2jQmdBcEHEN3K1U9o8WtegcVA6l =wD0+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----