Obsolete Documentation
- dselect Documentation for Beginners
- User's Guide
- Debian Tutorial
- Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage
- Debian User Reference Manual
- Debian System Administrator's Manual
- Debian Network Administrator's Manual
- The Linux Cookbook
- APT HOWTO
- Introduction: Making a Debian Package
- Debian Programmers' Manual
- Debian Packaging Manual
- How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format
- Introduction to i18n
- Debian SGML/XML HOWTO
- Debian XML/SGML Policy
- DebianDoc-SGML Markup Manual
- Debian Repository HOWTO
Historical documents
The documents listed below were either written a long time ago and are not up to date or have been written for previous versions of Debian and have not been updated to current versions. Their information is outdated, but may still be of interest to some.
The documents that have lost their relevance and serve no purpose any more, have had their references removed, but the source code for many of these obsolete manuals can be found on the DDP's attic.
User oriented documentation
dselect Documentation for Beginners
This file documents dselect for first-time users, and is intended to help in getting Debian installed successfully. It makes no attempt to explain everything, so when you first meet dselect, work through the help screens.
Authors: | Stéphane Bortzmeyer |
Maintainer: | (?) |
Status: | stalled: aptitude has replaced dselect as the standard Debian package management interface |
Availability: |
Latest version:
The latest XML source is available through the Git repository.
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This User's Guide
is nothing but a reformatted Progeny User's Guide
.
Contents are adjusted for the standard Debian system.
Over 300 pages with a good tutorial to start using the Debian system from GUI desktop and shell command line.
Authors: | Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. |
Maintainer: | Osamu Aoki (青木 修) |
Status: | Useful itself as a tutorial. Written for the woody release, getting obsolete. |
Availability: |
Latest version:
The latest XML source is available through the Git repository.
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This manual is for a new Linux user, to help such a user get acquainted with Linux once they have installed it, or for a new Linux user on a system which someone else is administering.
Authors: | Havoc Pennington, Oliver Elphick, Ole Tetlie, James Treacy, Craig Sawyer, Ivan E. Moore II |
Editors: | Havoc Pennington |
Maintainer: | (?) |
Status: | stalled; incomplete; probably obsoleted by Debian Reference |
Availability: |
not yet complete
Latest version:
The latest XML source is available through the Git repository.
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Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage
A manual, oriented towards the end-user.
Authors: | John Goerzen, Ossama Othman |
Editors: | John Goerzen |
Status: | ready (but it is for potato) |
Availability: | Debian package (archived) debian-guide |
This manual provides at least an overview of everything a user should know about their Debian GNU/Linux system (i.e. setting up X, how to configure network, accessing floppy disks, etc.). It is intended to bridge the gap between the Debian Tutorial and the detailed manual and info pages supplied with each package.
It is also intended to give some idea of how to combine commands, on the general Unix principle, that there is always more than one way to do it.
Authors: | Ardo van Rangelrooij, Jason D. Waterman, Havoc Pennington, Oliver Elphick, Bruce Evry, Karl-Heinz Zimmer |
Editors: | Thalia L. Hooker, Oliver Elphick |
Maintainer: | (?) |
Status: | stalled and quite incomplete; probably obsoleted by Debian Reference |
Availability: |
Latest version:
The latest XML source is available through the Git repository.
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Debian System Administrator's Manual
This document is mentioned in the introduction of the Policy manual. It covers all system administration aspects of a Debian system.
Authors: | Tapio Lehtonen |
Maintainer: | (?) |
Status: | stalled; incomplete; probably obsoleted by Debian Reference |
Availability: |
not yet available
Latest version:
The latest XML source is available through the Git repository.
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Debian Network Administrator's Manual
This manual covers all network administration aspects of a Debian system.
Authors: | Ardo van Rangelrooij, Oliver Elphick, Duncan C. Thomson, Ivan E. Moore II |
Maintainer: | (?) |
Status: | stalled; incomplete; probably obsoleted by Debian Reference |
Availability: |
not yet available
Latest version:
The latest XML source is available through the Git repository.
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A hands-on reference guide to the Debian GNU/Linux system that shows,
in over 1,500 recipes
, how to use it for everyday activities — from
working with text, images, and sound to productivity and networking
issues. Like the software the book describes, the book is copylefted
and its source data is available.
Authors: | Michael Stutz |
Status: | published; written for woody, getting obsolete |
Availability: | Debian package (archived) linuxcookbook |
This manual tries to be a quick but complete source of information about the APT system and its features. It contains much information about the main uses of APT and many examples.
Authors: | Gustavo Noronha Silva |
Maintainer: | Gustavo Noronha Silva |
Status: | obsolete since 2009 |
Availability: |
Debian package (archived)
apt-howto
Latest version:
The latest XML source is available through the Git repository.
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Developer documentation
Introduction: Making a Debian Package
Introduction on how to create a .deb
, using
debmake.
Authors: | Jaldhar H. Vyas |
Status: | stalled, obsoleted by New Maintainers' Guide |
Availability: | HTML online |
Helps new developers to create a package for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
Authors: | Igor Grobman |
Status: | obsoleted by New Maintainers' Guide |
Availability: |
Latest version:
The latest XML source is available through the Git repository.
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This manual describes the technical aspects of creating Debian binary and source packages. It also documents the interface between dselect and its access method scripts. It does not deal with the Debian Project policy requirements, and it assumes familiarity with dpkg's functions from the system administrator's perspective.
Authors: | Ian Jackson, Klee Dienes, David A. Morris, Christian Schwarz |
Status: | Parts that were de facto policy were merged into debian-policy. |
Availability: | Debian package (archived) packaging-manual |
How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format
This document is intended as a starting point to explain how software producers can integrate their products with Debian, what different situations can arise depending on the license of the products and the choices of the producers, and what possibilities there are. It does not explain how to create packages, but it links to documents which do exactly that.
You should read this if you are not familiar with the big picture of creating and distributing Debian packages, and optionally with adding them to the Debian distribution.
Authors: | Aaron Isotton |
Maintainer: | Aaron Isotton |
Status: | obsolete |
Availability: |
Latest version:
The latest XML source is available through the Git repository.
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This document describes basic idea and howto of l10n (localization), i18n (internationalization), and m17n (multilingualization) for programmers and package maintainers.
The aim of this document is to make more packages support i18n and to make Debian a more internationalized distribution. Contributions from all over the world will be welcome, because the original author is Japanese-speaker and this document would be on Japanization if there were no contributions.
Authors: | Tomohiro KUBOTA (久保田智広) |
Maintainer: | Tomohiro KUBOTA (久保田智広) |
Status: | stalled, obsolete |
Availability: |
not yet complete
Latest version:
The latest SGML source is available through the Git repository.
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This HOWTO contains practical information about the use of SGML and XML on a Debian operating system.
Authors: | Stephane Bortzmeyer |
Maintainer: | Stephane Bortzmeyer |
Status: | stalled, obsolete |
Availability: |
Latest version:
The latest SGML source is available through the Git repository.
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Subpolicy for Debian packages that provide and/or make use of XML or SGML resources.
Authors: | Mark Johnson, Ardo van Rangelrooij, Adam Di Carlo |
Status: | dead |
Availability: |
The latest XML source is available through the Git repository.
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Documentation for the debiandoc-sgml system, including best practices and hints for maintainers. Future versions should includes tips for easier maintenance and building of documentation in Debian packages, guidelines for organizing translation of documentation, and other helpful information. See also bug #43718.
Authors: | Ian Jackson, Ardo van Rangelrooij |
Maintainer: | Ardo van Rangelrooij |
Status: | ready |
Availability: |
Debian package
debiandoc-sgml-doc
The latest SGML source is available through the Git repository.
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Miscellaneous documentation
This document explains how Debian repositories work, how to create them, and how to add them to the sources.list correctly.
Authors: | Aaron Isotton |
Maintainer: | Aaron Isotton |
Status: | ready (?) |
Availability: |
Latest version: The latest XML source is available through the Git repository.
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