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   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 9/4/2025 5:22 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:   
   > On 2025-09-04, Mike Scott wrote:   
   >> On 04/09/2025 08:26, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   >>> Mike Scott  writes:   
   >>>> I've been using a program 'daemon' on freebsd   
   >>>> [...]   
   >>>> I can't find a ready-to-roll linux version - is there one please?   
   >>>   
   >>> If you want an (almost) identical interface then in Debian (and   
   >>> presumably therefore also Ubuntu), there’s a command of the same name   
   >>> and similar behavior:   
   >>>   
   >>> https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/daemon/daemon.1.en.html   
   >>> [...]   
   >>   
   >> Many thanks. It's odd, but 'man -k daemon' turned up nothing (mint   
   >> zara) [...]   
   >   
   > That's not surprising -- the "entirety" of manpages aren't installed by   
   > default, just the ones relevant to those applications that are   
   > installed.   
   >   
      
   # Some of this is material from the Notes file, that has been   
   # sitting there for eons. These are necessitated by religion issues.   
   # Various parts of this may appear to be unnecessary (on your particular   
   distro).   
      
      sudo add-apt-repository universe        # If these are already present, the   
   software will tell you   
      sudo add-apt-repository multiverse   
      sudo apt-get update                     # On live media, this step may fail   
   depending on how old the media is   
      
      apt search daemon  | less               # In the worst case, will return a   
   lot of (local) results   
                                              # You don't need to be root, to   
   search for stuff.   
      
      sudo apt install daemon                 # Will put the manual page on local   
   disk   
      man daemon                              # Read the manual page.   
      
      sudo apt install synaptic               # Package Manager   
      sudo synaptic                           # Run the Package Manager, search   
   for Daemon   
                                              # Do "Properties" on the line you   
   find. It will list   
                                              # the file manifest. This helps   
   with packages where the   
                                              # executable has a different name   
   than the package (gddrescue, executable is ddrescue).   
      
   There have been package websites, which list packages and hint they exist.   
   Teh Google does not always return such sites today.   
      
   A Google search such as   
      
       linux man listdir   
      
   should give a manual page as the first or second result.   
      
   This is for the benefit of new users. In some cases, even the Terminal is   
   hard to find, but that's a whole nother post.   
      
      Paul   
      
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