aptitude interface help

[james gray]

Question:

where in the file system is the individual file

for help in the aptitude interface environment.

I would like to print it out.

when a person types the word aptitude at the command line and the system brings up a interface with a blue colored header and a blue horizontal strip in the middle and a red footer.

if i knew what something is called i would use its name.

any way, in this environment. a person can type shift question mark to go into help.

the help info is contained inside 

of the aptitude interface. 

it would be nice to obtain the individual help information 

that pertains to the keyboard shortcuts 

for the aptitude interface environment to print it out.

thank you.

[Neal Murphy]

On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:34:24 AM james gray wrote:

> Question:

>

> where in the file system is the individual file

>

> for help in the aptitude interface environment.

 

The man pages are typically in /usr/share/man. The man page for aptitude is found in section 8. So, try:

zcat /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude.8.gz | \

groff -man -T ps | \

ps2pdf - aptitude.pdf

 

Then use the normal method(s) to print a PDF. You may have to install gzip, groff and ghostscript for this to work (if they aren't already installed).

 

While there may be a 'proper' way to do it, it works for me.

[Andrei POPESCU]

But James is not looking for the manpage. The file you are looking for
can be found in the aptitude sources and it's called help.txt (for the
English version, it's available in other languages as well).

Kind regards,
Andrei
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