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8 Help and Documentation

openSUSE® comes with various sources of information and documentation, many

of which are already integrated in your installed system:

Desktop Help Centers

The help centers of both the KDE desktop (KDE help center) and the GNOME

desktop (Help) provide central access to the most important documentation re-

sources on your system, in searchable form. These resources include online help

for installed applications, man pages, info pages, and the Novell/SUSE manuals

delivered with your product. Learn more about your desktop's help center in

Section 8.1, “Using the KDE Help Center” (page 117) and Section 8.2, “Using

GNOME Help” (page 119).

Separate Help Packages for Some Applications

When installing new software with YaST, the software documentation is installed

automatically in most cases, and usually appears in the help center of your

desktop. However, some applications, such as GIMP, may have dierent online

help packages that can be installed separately with YaST and do not integrate

into the help centers.

Documentation in /usr/share/doc

This traditional help directory holds various documentation les and the release

notes for your system. Find more detailed information in Section “Documentation

Directory” (Chapter 35, Help and Documentation, ↑Reference).

Man Pages and Info Pages for Shell Commands

When working with the shell, you do not need to know the options of the com-

mands by heart. Traditionally, the shell provides integrated help by means of

man pages and info pages. Read more in Section “Man Pages” (Chapter 35, Help

and Documentation, ↑Reference) and Section “Info Pages” (Chapter 35, Help and

Documentation, ↑Reference).

8.1 Using the KDE Help Center

From the KDE desktop, you can access the KDE help center in various ways: If you

need information from within an application, simply click the application's Help button

or press [F1] to open the application's documentation in the help center. If you start

the help center from the main menu, or from the command line with khelpcenter,

you are taken to the main window of the help center from which you can browse the

help topics.

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