Getting Help 

Local help & files 

info latex 

tkinfo latex &
$ ls -F /usr/share/texmf
context/  etex/      ls-R        metapost/  pdfetex/  texconfig/   xdvi/
aliases    doc/      fontname/  makeindex/  mft/       pdftex/   updates.dat
bibtex/    dvips/    fonts/     metafont/   omega/     tex/      web2c/

texdoc 

Usage: texdoc [OPTION]... [NAME]...
 Search for NAME in the TeX documentation and start a viewer.
--help        show this help
-v            verbose mode: show viewer command
-l            just list all matching files. Do not start a viewer.

Latex Tutorial Books 

A Simplified Introduction to Latex, refered as [ASI] afterwards http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/simplified-latex/

The Not So Short Introduction to Latex2e, refered as [NSS] afterwards http://wso.williams.edu/help/lshort2e http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/

This listing contains short descriptions of the control sequences that are likely to be handy for users of Latex v2.09 layered on TEX v2.0.

ctan 

http://www.ctan.org/find.html

faq 

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html

full latex reference manual 

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/latex/

news group 

comp.text.tex