On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 11:19:02AM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > I installed the package libfftw3-doc in order to get the info form of > the fftw documentation. > > Nevertheless, when i try to to run the Info-menu command on it (i.e., > type 'm'), i get a message > Can't find fftw3.info-1 or any compressed version of it > (which comes from info-insert-file-contents). > > (In the stand-alone version of info, i get the shorter message "Cannot > find node ''.") > > I tried doing update and then dist-upgrade to make sure i didn't have > some broken package, but that made no difference. > > I tried removing and installing the package again, with the same > behavior inside emacs. > > So i would like to get some more details about what apt is actually > doing so i can figure out what to do.
Try: dpkg -L libfftw3-doc which should list all the files installed by that package. Then go and inspect them. -dsr-