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Quote from man apt-get:
remove
remove is identical to install except that packages are removed
instead of installed.
Translation:
kicking
kicking is identical to kissing except that receiver is kicked
instead of kissed.
so, i was reading man git. Quote:
Formatted and hyperlinked version of the latest git documentation can be viewed at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/.
but if you go to that URL, it shows a list of over one hundred forty empty dirs.
I guess unix/linux idiots can't be bothered to have correct documentation. Unskilled in writing is one thing, but they are incapable of maintaining a link or updating docs?
does this ever happen to Apple's docs? If it did, i don't ever recall seeing it from 18 years of using Mac.
more records of careless dead link:
so a friend told me about a game named “githug”. It's a command-line app that teaches you git, as if playing a game.
githug site says: gem install githug. I
ran which gem and got no result, so i brainlessly typed sudo apt-get install gem and it went. But
apparently, the gem package isn't what i want. What i wanted, turns
out, is called “rubygems”, which is ruby's package management
system.
there are several issues thus far:
now, continuing the story… so i:
sudo apt-get install rubygems
then i
gem install githug
all went well, except, when i type
which githug
nothing is to be found. WTF is going on?
“githug” is installed in 〔/var/lib/gems〕 by default. You need to either call it with full path or add it to your $PATH.
(the command updatedb and locate are helpful in locating files.
They are basically a cached version of find …. (Thanks to Huynh Kang))
Why the f��� is it in 〔/var/〕 dir?? To refresh my Unix Philosophy, see: Unix directory structure. Quote:
〔/var〕, a short for “variable.” A place for files that may change often.
in unix shit, there's always some tech justification that makes you feel better.
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