Jude DaShiell <jdash...@shellworld.net> wrote: > My bad, I was missing texinfo package and thought that had already been > installed. Once that got installed, everything works as well as it did > earlier this year. If I knew what path that error took, I'd write what > might be a better error message for it asking for the texinfo package to > be installed. > >
Here is a useful command that you can use on Debian and Ubuntu systems in situations like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ dpkg -S makeinfo texinfo: /usr/bin/makeinfo octave3.2-common: /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/help/__makeinfo__.m emacs23-common: /usr/share/emacs/23.1/lisp/textmodes/makeinfo.elc texinfo: /usr/share/man/man1/makeinfo.1.gz --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- It tells you the packages containing files that match the argument to the command. Also, on modern Ubuntu, it is often the case that when you try to execute a command by hand and it is not found, the system will suggest the installation of a package: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ foo No command 'foo' found, did you mean: Command 'fio' from package 'fio' (universe) Command 'goo' from package 'goo' (universe) Command 'fop' from package 'fop' (universe) Command 'fox' from package 'objcryst-fox' (universe) Command 'xoo' from package 'xoo' (universe) Command 'zoo' from package 'zoo' (universe) foo: command not found $ goo The program 'goo' is currently not installed. To run 'goo' please ask your administrator to install the package 'goo' --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- HTH, Nick PS I have no idea what the package/command ``goo'' does.