On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Marco Rofei wrote:
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< (%i2) :lisp (print-directories);
< maxima-prefix=/usr
< maxima-imagesdir=/usr/lib/maxima/5.23.2/binary-sbcl
< maxima-sharedir=/usr/share/maxima/5.23.2/share
< maxima-srcdir=/usr/share/maxima/5.23.2/src
< maxima-demodir=/usr/share/maxima/5.23.2/demo
< maxima-testsdir=/usr/share/maxima/5.23.2/tests
< maxima-docdir=/usr/share/maxima/5.23.2/doc
< maxima-infodir=/usr/share/info
< maxima-htmldir=/usr/share/maxima/5.23.2/doc/html
< maxima-plotdir=/usr/lib/maxima/5.23.2
< maxima-layout-autotools=T
< maxima-userdir=/home/maegras/.maxima
< maxima-tempdir=/home/maegras
< maxima-lang-subdir=NIL
< maxima-objdir=/home/maegras/.maxima/binary/binary-sbcl
< NIL
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< and in a shell could you enter
< ls /usr/local/share/info
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< Dir does not exist
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< I've installed maxima frop Ubuntu-ppa
Ok, the configuration of Maxima and its installation are inconsistent.
It appears that Istvan Blahota has chosen
/usr/share/doc/maxima-doc/
as the doc directory and the maxima-infodir is
/usr/share/doc/maxima-doc/info/info
What you can do to fix this is to execute the following in a shell
[ -d ~/.maxima ] || mkdir ~/.maxima #make the .maxima dir
And with your favourite text editor, open ~/.maxima/maxima-init.lisp and
add
:lisp (setq *maxima-docdir* "/usr/share/doc/maxima-doc/")
:lisp (setq *maxima-infodir* (concatenate 'string *maxima-docdir* "info/")
:lisp (setq *maxima-htmldir* (concatenate 'string *maxima-docdir* "html/")
Restart Maxima and this file should be autoloaded and the correct
directories set.
Note that the other directories are printed above are likely incorrect
and will need to be set. You can find where these directories are by
looking in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and looking in the various maxima*.list
files that list all the files that are installed by the given package.
Leo
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