Documentation Resources

If you have the Official Red Hat Linux boxed set, remember to take a look through the Red Hat Linux Documentation CD. All of the Official Red Hat Linux manuals are on this CD. Individual downloads of our documentation in HTML, RPM, PDF, and compressed tarball format (.tar.gz) are also available at http://www.redhat.com/docs/. Once you have logged in to your user account, inserting the Documentation CD in your CD-ROM drive should automatically start the Package Management Tool and allow you to install any of the Official Red Hat Linux documentation. Follow the instructions and choose the documentation you would like to install.

After you have installed the documentation packages you want, you can access them at any time by clicking Main Menu => Documentation.

If you have downloaded individual documentation RPM packages from the Red Hat website at http://www.redhat.com/docs, you can install these manuals from a shell prompt. Open a shell prompt, and type the following at the command line:

su

Press [Enter]. You will be asked for your root password. Enter the password at the prompt and press [Enter]. You are now logged in as root. To install all four manuals, change to the directory that contains the RPM files and type the following:

rpm -ivh rhl-*.rpm

Press [Enter].

To install only certain manuals, replace rhl-*.rpm with the full file name of the manual that you want to install. For example, the file name for the Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide will look something like rhl-gsg-en-8.0.noarch.rpm, so you would type the following to install the Official Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide on your computer:

rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/rhl-gsg-en-8.0.noarch.rpm

Press [Enter]. Type exit at the command line and press [Enter]. This takes you out of root and back to your user account.

Now go to Main Menu => Documentation and select the manual you want to read.