Where's arch's package documentations???

sharkwater · 2009-04-04 13:17:05

Hi,

I found that there're not as many entries in /usr/share/doc as ubuntu does. In ubuntu, nearly every package comes with a doc package, often named package-doc, placed in /usr/share/doc, which is quite convenient.

I'm new to arch. Can someone tell me how can I find/install the offline documentation's for packages?

thx!

Last edited by sharkwater (2009-04-04 13:20:35)

Allan · 2009-04-04 13:20:02

We didn't used to include it until fairly recently so it gets added as packages get rebuilt. Man pages should be there, and many info pages. Even so, I think that Debian includes a lot more documentation that what tends to be provided by default.

sharkwater · 2009-04-04 13:27:23

Thank you!

I used to look into the offline documant before going for the online one. Manpages are good, I like them. But some developpers tend to put their documents in the html format rather than in the manpage which leads to poor-content manpages...

anyway, just a personal habit. Thanks again for the help!

test1000 · 2009-04-04 15:21:50

You can also just rebuild the packages with makepkg if you have docs set to included in /etc/makepkg.conf. You will also have to remove the options=(!docs) line in the PKGBUILD if that exists. See man PKGBUILD for more info if needed.

edit: Some of the packages remove documentation and i guess doesn't install documentation(?) in the build() function though, so be aware of this.

Last edited by test1000 (2009-04-04 15:23:15)

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Where's arch's package documentations???

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