Hello,
I just installed maxima 5.9.1 on a Gentoo linux system and am working
my way through the docs to get started.
When I do:
describe(factor);
I get:
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
Failed to find info directory
Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
info maxima works fine from the command line and using c-h i in
emacs. I see the same error whether starting maxima from the command
line or within emacs as m-x maxima.
I assume some configuration file somewhere needs tweaking but I could
not find such a file. A search of the faq found a similar error only
for a Windows box and the cure would not apply in my case.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Roger Mason