help system (was: [maxima:wiki] Discussion for Home page)



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>   WARNING: Maxima is unable to set up the help system.
>	    (Details: CL-INFO::LOAD-PRIMARY-INDEX: LOAD: A file with name /usr/local/share/info/maxima-index.lisp does not exist)
>   this is the message I get inizialising maxima just after I have installed the app. How can I deal with this?. Any advice?
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Ricardo, I have taken the liberty to forward this to the Maxima email list.

The message means that the index file for the help system was not
found where Maxima expected it to be. Can you tell us some information
about your system:

OS? (if linux, which distribution?)
How did you install Maxima?

Leo