4. Logging In 4.1 First Steps 4.2 Command History and Editing the Command Line 4.3 Working as Root 4.4 Virtual Consoles 4.5 Shutting Down
5. The Basics 5.1 The Command Line and Man Pages 5.2 Files and Directories 5.3 Processes 5.4 The Shell 5.5 Managing Processes with bash 5.6 A Few bash Features 5.7 Managing Your Identity
6. Using the Shell 6.1 Environment Variables 6.2 Where Commands Reside: The PATH Variable 6.3 Configuration Files 6.4 Aliases 6.5 Controlling Input and Output 6.6 Filename Expansion
7. More on Files 7.1 Permissions 7.2 Files Present and Their Locations 7.3 File Compression with gzip 7.4 Finding Files 7.5 Determining a File’s Contents 7.6 Using a File Manager
8. Working with Text Files 8.1 Viewing Text Files 8.2 Text Editors 8.3 Using ae
9. The X Window System 9.1 Introduction to X 9.2 Starting the X Environment 9.3 Basic X Operations 9.4 Customizing Your X Startup
10. Filesystems 10.1 Concepts 10.2 mount and /etc/fstab 10.3 Backup Tools
12 Removing and Installing Software 12.1 What a Package Maintenance Utility Does 12.2 dpkg 12.3 dselect 12.4 Compiling Software
13 Advanced Topics 13.1 Regular Expressions 13.2 Advanced Files 13.3 Security 13.4 Software Development with Debian
II. Reference A Reading Documentation and Getting Help A.1 Kinds of Documentation
B Troubleshooting B.1 Common Difficulties B.2 Troubleshooting the Boot Process
1. cfdisk screenshot 2. dselect Access screen 3. Sample session with su 4. Sample printenv output 5. Changing the prompt 6. Redirecting output
1. Linux Device Names 2. Special dselect keys 3. dselect Package States 4. Expected Package Category States 5. Permissions in Linux
Many people have helped with this manual. We’d like to thank everyone involved, and we try to do that here.
Thanks to Havoc Pennington, Ardo van Rangelrooij, Larry Greenfield, Thalia Hooker, Day Irmiter, James Treacy, Craig Sawyer, Oliver Elphick, Ivan E. Moore II, Eric Fischer, Mike Touloumtzis, and the Linux Documentation Project for their work on what became the Debian Tutorial document.
Thanks to Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation for advice and editing.
Thanks to Bruce Perens, Sven Rudolph, Igor Grobman, James Treacy, Adam Di Carlo, Tapio Lehtonen, and Stephane Bortzmeyer for their work on what became a collection of installation documents.