On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:04:47PM -0600, Glen Lee Edwards thoughtfully expounded: > Using Red Hat 7.2, info 4.0b-3. It isn't pulling up several info files, > including but not limited to xemacs and lispref. The info files for these two > are installed in /usr/share/info, as is the info file for emacs, which is > working. How do I get info to access all the info files on the system?
Glen, I have had this problem with RH 6.2 as well. First see where /usr/share/info/dir is located. For me it is symlinked to /etc/info-dir, but RH 7.2 may not do this. The key point is that I had to run /sbin/install-info for each info file in the /usr/share/info directory, in order to update it fully. This works on the foo.info.gz files as well. I did it (as root) with a bash loop like so: # [tporter@vasili tporter] su # Password: xxxxx # [root@vasili tporter] cd /usr/share/info # [root@vasili info]$ for i in *.gz # > do # > /sbin/install-info -d /etc/info-dir $i # > done It will complain about already existing entries, but will add your new ones. I had to do this for the non-.gz ones as well. HTH -- Tom Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
