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ItachiUchiha

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Registered: 2015-11-14

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installed linux-docs package, how to acess it?

I have been using Linux for 3 years and started using Arch from 2 months.
So far I just loved the DYI and KISS approach.

Using Arch made me realise that I am learning a lot about linux. I am still learning at my slow speed.
Before trying to install LFS and Gentoo (maybe after a year or 6 months)  I want to know more about of kernel. So I decided to enter in Kernel customizing domain.

I never really read the docs about anything. I wasn't really that kind of guy.
But using Arch made me realise importance of documentation.

So I decided to read lot of docs about kernel customizing and I installed linux-docs package.
I googled and searched wiki but did not find anything that will help me.

I know I can always acess docs in /usr/****.
Is there any other way to read linux-docs in bash ?

I could download pdf or html files but is there any other way that I don't know?

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Re: installed linux-docs package, how to acess it?

Try running pacman with the -Ql packagename to see what that one actually provides.

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ItachiUchiha

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Registered: 2015-11-14

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Re: installed linux-docs package, how to acess it?

It shows location and files in package
/usr/lib/modules/

The list is too huge to read it without interlinking or html.

linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/caif/spi_porting.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/can.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/cdc_mbim.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/cops.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/cxacru-cf.py
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/cxacru.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/cxgb.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/dctcp.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/de4x5.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/dl2k.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/dm9000.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/dmfe.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/driver.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/e100.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/e1000e.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/eql.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/fib_trie.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/filter.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/fore200e.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/framerelay.txt
linux-docs /usr/lib/modules/4.2.5-1-ARCH/build/Documentation/networking/gen_stats.txt

All these files are text files. Its incovinient to read from on file to another.
Can't I access thsese with man?
I am used to readng man formatting.

In package decription it says

   $ pacman -Ss linux-docs

      core/linux-docs 4.2.5-1 [installed]
            Kernel hackers manual - [b]HTML documentation[b] that comes with the Linux kernel