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Just browsing the Debian FAQ and thought I'd share these items.
(I wondered if debian had an equivalent to whereis or which)
5.5. Where is 'which'?
This is a historical question, no longer relevant, but is included with
this FAQ because it may still hold the record as the single most
frequently asked question on the Debian mailing lists.
The functionality of the Berkeley utility which is provided in the Bash
shell by the built-in command type. To learn the path name for an
executable file foo, use the command type foo. To learn all the paths
where foo can be found, use type -a foo. To accommodate users' lack of
familiarity with this (in this writer's opinion, obscure) feature of
Bash, the Debian maintainers have built a package called debianutils,
which includes a Bash script called which. This script includes only
these lines:
#!/bin/bash
for i in $*; do
type -all -path $i | head -1
done
The debianutils package is normally stored in the base section of the FTP
archive, and is therefore part of the initial installation of every Debian
system.
5.11. How does Debian support non-English languages?
o Debian GNU/Linux is distributed with keymaps for nearly two dozen
keyboards, and with utilities (in the kbd package) to install, view,
and modify the tables. The installation prompts the user to specify the
keyboard he will use.
o Support for French-, German-, Italian- and Spanish-language manual
pages is provided through the manpages-fr, manpages-de, manpages-it
and manpages-es packages. To access an NLS manual page, the user
must set LC_MESSAGES to the appropriate string. In the case of the
German-language manual pages, LC_MESSAGES must be set to 'de_DE'.
The man program will then search for German manual pages under
/usr/man/de_DE/.
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David Murdoch djm@duncan.alt.ns.ca Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
<"http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~djm">DJM</a>
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