Using DSL in Linux Intro Course

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Using DSL in Linux Intro Course
started by: intutor

Posted by intutor on Nov. 12 2006,21:23

LinuxBasics.org is hosting a free introduction to Linux online
course. It attempts to be non-specific to any particular distro so I am attempting to go thru the course using DSL.
There are clearly some shortcomings because some commands
referenced in the course are not available (or at least not
installed initially) in DSL.

Thus my first question.....the course references the
'info' command. The only reference I see to 'info' is:

bash-2.05b# whereis info
info: /usr/share/info

What's there is a compressed text file, rluserman.info.gz.

Is the info command available for DSL (i'm using 3.0)? Or
available in one of the DSL install packages?

Thanks,
-intutor (Mark D.)

Posted by Winter Knight on Nov. 13 2006,05:43

I remember when I first starting learning linux using DSL, and I had the same problem. I also didn't have man, because DSL's man requires internet access, and that was before I figured out how to get internet on a linux machine.

In hindsight, i realize that man and info aren't very important commands. The same information can be gathered on the web.

I checked the repositories, and I don't think man pages or info are available there. If they were, I would recommend installing them, but since they are not, I'd just like to say that they aren't so important that you should stop using DSL to learn linux.

Also, if you need to compile something, download and mydsl-load the gcc1-with-libs.dsl from the repository. That was a big thing for me to figure out when I first started learning.

Good luck!

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 13 2006,14:56

Check mydsl > UCI for the man extension (if you don't have internet access on the local machine)