misdirected ubuntu requests (yes this is relevant)

[Matthew Woehlke]

(First, my apologies to Bob Proulx, who apparently (according to Eric 
anyway) penned the canned reply first, for the misattribution.)

After the latest incident of misdirected Ubuntu requests (in French, no 
less), I decide to file a bug against Ubuntu [1].

Ondřej Vašík wrote:
> One confusing thing for new-to-linux users is install utility - as 
> they think that man install would be about installation process of
> linux - which is obviously not true as it refers to install utility
> manpage. That's at least one of the mails ... others could be caused
> by something different.

So... we have one possible explanation. I'm not sure if we want to do 
anything about this, however; I could see adding a brief snippet to the 
'what is "install"' section that 'install' is NOT general information 
about the distro, but (due to help2man) that might be technically 
difficult and not worth the return. That said, I'm also not sure if 
typing "man install" is why people end up here.

I don't recall ever seeing any replies on-list to the query why people 
wound up here erroneously. Has anyone been sent an explanation privately?

At any rate, the nice folks at Ubuntu are now aware of the problem as well.

1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294348

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