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Where do i find the "Linux Howto's" ? 1
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TANSTAAFL. Now google "linux howto" (from which the first result gets you the linux documentation project) and be in peace.
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I thought i would read lesson one at this link
it says
If you have a basic knowledge of Unix commands already, You should go to the directory /etc/apt/ and do the following (as root). (Even if you don't, you may want to try it!)
That would be great only they omited to tell me how the heck I "GO TO THE DIRECTORY"
Where can a person get information that walks you through line by line how to do the most basic things like changeing directories.
it says
If you have a basic knowledge of Unix commands already, You should go to the directory /etc/apt/ and do the following (as root). (Even if you don't, you may want to try it!)
That would be great only they omited to tell me how the heck I "GO TO THE DIRECTORY"
Where can a person get information that walks you through line by line how to do the most basic things like changeing directories.
Ok I thought i would try vi as the following instructions say:
Do this first:
vi sources.list
This brings up the text editor 'vi'. There are people who love this program so much, they will challenge you to a pistol duel at 20 paces if you tell them you think it's lousy. If you have zero experience with Linux or Unix, 'vi' is probably *not* the text editor for you at this point, but with a few simple strokes of the keyboard, we can do what we want for now.
Has me type some things and then just lets me hang! I have a page with ~ characters in the first character of each row, no menu no help nothing just an editor that lots of people love and I already hate because I dont have a clue how to get out of it. I try the ESC key I try alt Q it says Q is not a vi command. Ok its google to the resque and its 9:00 PM, I want to see whats in the readme file in a directory I am in I should have typed vi filename I guess but still I have no clue to even one vi command here.
Do this first:
vi sources.list
This brings up the text editor 'vi'. There are people who love this program so much, they will challenge you to a pistol duel at 20 paces if you tell them you think it's lousy. If you have zero experience with Linux or Unix, 'vi' is probably *not* the text editor for you at this point, but with a few simple strokes of the keyboard, we can do what we want for now.
Has me type some things and then just lets me hang! I have a page with ~ characters in the first character of each row, no menu no help nothing just an editor that lots of people love and I already hate because I dont have a clue how to get out of it. I try the ESC key I try alt Q it says Q is not a vi command. Ok its google to the resque and its 9:00 PM, I want to see whats in the readme file in a directory I am in I should have typed vi filename I guess but still I have no clue to even one vi command here.
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