I am trying to add info documents to my local repository. I am downloading info documents, which I copy to /usr/share/info.
I proceed to recreate the "dir" index via: # for f in $(ls *.gz); do install-info $f; done While this is running, I see a few "unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up" messages. Then I launch "info" and there are new entries in the main menu, but when I try to access them, nothing happens, just a message at the bottom of the screen informing me that there is "no such file or directory". One example is the "bashref" info file. This is a debian "lenny" system, and I observe that the info files that were installed by debian are all .gz files, while the ones that I am downloading "manually" are .tar.gz files. Am I supposed to gunzip, untar, and re-zip the files back again for this to work? Or is there a conflict between the version of info that I am running and the current file format at www.gnu.org ?? I have looked for documentation that explains how to install additional info files, but have found nothing conclusive. All apologies if I looked in the wrong places, I'm sure I'm not doing it right and that there is an obvious solution to this, but even after searching the mailing list archives, and hours of guessing I have not been able to find anything. Hopefully, someone will give me a push in the right direction. Thanks, CJ