On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 22:40, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > On 09/10/2020 01:11 AM, David wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 15:50, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> >> The manpage > >> [https://manpages.debian.org/buster/aptitude/aptitude.8.en.html] makes > >> multiple references to "the aptitude reference manual" but gives no link. > >> Where do I find it? > > Under the Help menu when running aptitude interactively, or you can read > > it directly from the text file > > /usr/share/aptitude/README > I had searched for something titled "aptitude reference manual" ;/ > I found [https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/index.en.html] > which appears to be an HTML version of the "readme". > I find HTML easier to navigate than text files and I can reformat the > display to accommodate some vision problems. On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 00:28, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > apt show aptitude-doc-en As Andrei hints, the HTML version that you prefer is also packaged for Debian so you can install it locally by installing the package aptitude-doc-en. The plain text version displayed by the Help menu of the curses version of aptitude is installed by the aptitude-common package.
