Hi. Try pressing ? from the aptitude main screen. ? loads the help for aptitude. The meaning of the letters are explained. on the help screen. Hope this helps,. Kenny On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:31:49AM -0700, Sean M McMahon wrote: > I no the first thing one of you is going to say upon reading this subject > line is read the documentation, but that's what I need to install and > that's why I need some good help from you people. I notice I have no > output from which man so I thought I'd install man but when I look at > aptitude I see an I next to some of the man packages does that mean their > installed? If they are, where are they and how do I set my path? When I > tried to install some documentation I saw a lot of packages with a P next > to them what does that mean? When I hit the plus key to mark a package > for installation, the letter next to it said PI what does that mean? > Finally, what's the key command to show info about a package? Sean > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup