[plug] deb documentation

[Trevor Phillips]

Oliver White wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I downloaded the package 'imwheel' and installed it, with apt-get.
> This is all very well and good. However, as happens a lot with deb
> packages, and indeed rpms, there's no man page installed and I have NFI
> what I'm supposed to do. tar.gz blobs always have a README file....
> where would I find the same information for a deb?

As a general tip, to list the contents of a .deb, do:
  dpkg -L packagename.

eg; 
  dpkg -L imwheel
Or to get less noise:
  dpkg -L imwheel | grep README

Reveals:
  /usr/share/doc/imwheel/README.gz

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