El mar, 05-01-2010 a las 08:59 -0700, Robert Dodier escribi?:
> 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?
I have also found this problem with the compressed files when building
deb binaries for ubuntu. It took me some time to figure out how to solve
it during the building process.
Since the question Maxima+Ubuntu is recurrent in this list, I wrote some
notes trying to guide users.
There are versions both in Spanish and English (or Spanglish, I'm not
sure) in my web site:
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/biomates
--
Mario