On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Jaime Villate wrote:
< 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.
@Jaime, maybe you could file a bug report against this packaging?
@Marco, judging from your build_info output, you have built Maxima from
source or installed it from outwith the Ubuntu repos. In Maxima, could
you enter
:lisp (print-directories)
and in a shell could you enter
ls /usr/local/share/info
Please post the output to this list.
The default installation directory is /usr/local/share/info for this
file.
Leo
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