[ale] info

[Joe Knapka]

man gcc works as expected, of course.

info gcc results in "info: dir: no such file or directory"

In fact "info <anything>" results in the same message, though
a little while ago I was getting the man page for wc when I did
"info wc". Ah, when I'm root I get the man page, when I'm
myself I get the error. So it's an $INFOPATH problem,
I suppose.

Still, of the great many info pages in my /usr/info
directory, only a small number (gcc, emacs, libc, that's
about it) are actually available via "info <keyword>". I'd
love to know how to fix that. I usually use the Gnome
help viewer, which magically sees everything in /usr/info,
but sometimes I'm stuck with the text-mode info viewer.

Thanks,

-- Joe

Fulton Green wrote:
> 
> Try "man gcc", then "info gcc". If you're still seeing the same content,
> something's definitely up. Else it may be that the maintainer(s) of the
> command in question convert the TeXinfo document to the roff format and
> distribute that as the man page.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:27:59AM -0600, Joe Knapka wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, is "info" properly installed on
> > -anyone's- system? Many GNU manpages contain a helpful
> > note similar to:
> >
> > "Complete documentation for whizbang is available only in
> > Texinfo format. [At this point my teeth grind.] If the
> > whizbang command and info are both installed properly, then
> > the command
> >
> > info whizbang
> >
> > will let you view the info page for whizbang."
> >
> > On every Linux system I've ever used (which basically means
> > various releases of Slackware and Red Hat 5.2), after a fresh
> > install, the command "info <any command you care to name>"
> > only brings up the info view of the same man page containing the
> > helpful note, and the info documentation (eg "info info")
> > is not very helpful when trying to correct this problem...
> >
> > So am I missing the magic invisible "Install info so it
> > actually works" option, or does everyone have the same
> > problem?

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