On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 11:56 +0100, Marco Rofei wrote:
> Hi everyone, I got an error when I to use the built-in help of maxima:
> (%i1) ?? diff
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
> Couldn't load #P"/usr/share/info/./maxima-index.lisp": file does not
> exist.
> Maxima version: 5.23.2
> Maxima build date: 14:11 1/18/2011
> Host type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> Lisp implementation type: SBCL
> Lisp implementation version: 1.0.40.0.debian
>
> I'm using Ubuntu.
If the package you installed is named "maxima", try the following:
dpkg -s maxima
It will show you something similar to this:
Package: maxima
...
Recommends: maxima-share, gv, maxima-emacs
Suggests: texmacs, maxima-doc, wish
Which is a very unhappy choice of suggestions and recommendations. If
you have not installed maxima-doc, you will not have any built-in help.
Several other commands that you find in the manual will not work either
unless you install maxima-share; and there are also a few other commands
in the manual that will not work without xmaxima, which has not been
mentioned in the recommendations or suggestions. In fact, I don't see
why wish is recommended if xmaxima is not.
Regards,
Jaime