As a "relative linux newbie" (Aren't we all? I've been using linux for 7 years now, and the only thing that has happened is that my definition of "newbie" has stretched.), you might find the following useful.Thomas Rast wrote:
Edward Diener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
It is a pity the Python Linux binary installations do not create folders on the desktop or in the Gnome menu system with links to the Python to the documentation and a readme telling me what executables were installed.
Imagine they did, and the other 1392 packages (on my system) too :-)
I can understand that <g>. But I would rather have links somewhere than not know what it was a particular package does and how to use it. As a relative Linux newbie, I have found it disconcerting to have things installed on my system when I first booted the system or when I install new packages or upgrade existing ones, and not know what these packages are used for. One can always delete links, and they are cheap, so I would rather have too much to begin with than too little.
Documentation usually resides in /usr/share/doc/<package>, /usr/share/doc/packages/<package> or similiar. You're on an RPM-based system, so
$ rpm -ql <package>
lists all files belonging to that package. You should have little trouble spotting the documentation files there.
Thanks. That does help.
If you're using KDE, you can set a bookmark in konqueror to the documentation and it'll bring it up in the bookmark toolbar. Only hassle is when you update python and the docs, you have to edit the bookmark.
Another approach is to type in /usr/share/doc/py into the konqueror URL and it'll pop up a list of folders containing python documentation.
Joal
PS: DON'T add a general bookmark to /usr/share/doc
I did that when I was beginning, and every time I went document hunting, I'd have to wait a good minute and a half for konqueror to display all the folders in this directory.
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