On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 08:40:02AM -0700, Robert Dodier wrote:
>
> Yes -- the maxima-index.lisp must be unzipped.
> Maxima can read it from /usr/share/doc/maxima-doc if you assign
> an obscure variable in Maxima ... probably easier to just move
> all the stuff the location in which Maxima is looking for it.
>
> All of the maxima*.info* files must also be unzipped.
> I guess Maxima should try to read gzip'd files but that's a feature
> that would be in a future release.
Hmm... that is strange... on *another* computer running an older release
of Ubuntu, namely
bartv at eeklo:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 7.04
Release: 7.04
Codename: feisty
I have the following files:
bartv at eeklo:~$ dpkg -L maxima-doc | grep maxima\.info
/usr/share/info/es/maxima.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/es/maxima.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/es/maxima.info-4.gz
/usr/share/info/es/maxima.info-5.gz
/usr/share/info/es/maxima.info-6.gz
/usr/share/info/es/maxima.info-7.gz
/usr/share/info/es/maxima.info.gz
/usr/share/info/es/maxima.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/es.utf8/maxima.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/es.utf8/maxima.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/es.utf8/maxima.info-4.gz
/usr/share/info/es.utf8/maxima.info-5.gz
/usr/share/info/es.utf8/maxima.info-6.gz
/usr/share/info/es.utf8/maxima.info-7.gz
/usr/share/info/es.utf8/maxima.info.gz
/usr/share/info/es.utf8/maxima.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/pt/maxima.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/pt/maxima.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/pt/maxima.info-4.gz
/usr/share/info/pt/maxima.info-5.gz
/usr/share/info/pt/maxima.info-6.gz
/usr/share/info/pt/maxima.info-7.gz
/usr/share/info/pt/maxima.info.gz
/usr/share/info/pt/maxima.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/pt.utf8/maxima.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/pt.utf8/maxima.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/pt.utf8/maxima.info-4.gz
/usr/share/info/pt.utf8/maxima.info-5.gz
/usr/share/info/pt.utf8/maxima.info-6.gz
/usr/share/info/pt.utf8/maxima.info-7.gz
/usr/share/info/pt.utf8/maxima.info.gz
/usr/share/info/pt.utf8/maxima.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/maxima.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/maxima.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/maxima.info-4.gz
/usr/share/info/maxima.info-5.gz
/usr/share/info/maxima.info-6.gz
/usr/share/info/maxima.info-7.gz
/usr/share/info/maxima.info.gz
/usr/share/info/maxima.info-1.gz
There seems to be no maxima-index.lisp file:
bartv at eeklo:~$ locate maxima-index.lisp
bartv at eeklo:~$
The version of maxima installed is
bartv at eeklo:~$ maxima
Maxima 5.10.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (aka GCL)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
and it seems that the help function within Maxima *is* working:
(%i1) ? integrate
0: integrate :(maxima.info)Definitions for Integration.
1: integrate_use_rootsof :Definitions for Integration.
Enter space-separated numbers, `all' or `none':
Are you sure the maxima*info* files must be unzipped???
(I cannot try right now since our sysadmin already went home and I
have no access to the specific directories...)
Regards,
Bart
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