On 1/4/10, Alasdair McAndrew <amca01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, I've just installed maxima 5.20.1 on Ubuntu, but for some reason the
> online help doesn't work: commands like "?? int" return nothing.
Try running maxima --directories to see what is the value of maxima-infodir.
There should be several maxima.info* files there. Some packages contai
gzip-compressed .info files -- if so try uncompressing them.
If the maxima.info* files are missing entirely, were they perhaps installed
somewhere else? How was Maxima installed, by the way?
best
Robert Dodier