Introduction
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Nov 19 20:28:27 UTC 2006
Karsten Wade wrote:
> I think it's worth noting the ideal and actual usage, yes. We probably
> don't need to specify all of what is in a directly, that's what 'ls' is
> for. But we can give people some clever steps to learn more, e.g.:
>
> "To find out what a binary 'foo' is, there are several methods of
> research:
>
> man foo
>
> or
>
> info foo
>
> show manual and info pages for 'foo'.
>
> Since software in Fedora all comes in a package, looking to see where
> 'foo' came from can be useful:
>
> which foo
> /usr/bin/foo
> rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/foo
> foo-2.7-1.3.fc6
>
> Packages also have some useful information, especially where the binary
> is a non-obvious component in a larger package:
>
> rpm -qi foo
>
> To find out what other packages need that package:
>
> rpm -q --whatrequires foo
>
I already documented some of this in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate.
> Are we including NTFS now?
Yes, we are. The userspace ntfs-3g is now in Fedora Extras.
Rahul
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