Public bug reported: after upgrading my latop to ubuntu 18.04 LTS, although maxima, xmaxima, wxmaxima and maxima-doc were already installed no help pages were accessible in wxmaxima (and so xmaxima can't start) . reinstalling maxima, xmaxima, wxmaxima and maxima-doc doesn't solve the problem .
After some investigation (see the mailing list : https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/mailman/message/36406550/ ) I discovered that the directory /usr/share/maxima/*.*.*/doc/ never exists after installation. A work-around to solve the problem consist to install maxima-sage-doc and copy the help file system to maxima : * install maxima-sage documentation package sudo apt-get install maxima-sage-doc * copy the doc/ directory for maxima-sage into the wxmaxima directory sudo cp -R /usr/share/maxima-sage/5.39.0/doc/ /usr/share/maxima/5.41.0/ * now the html help files are readable in wxmaxima but to enable the search in chapter and index you have to uncompress the corresponding gz files in doc/html/ directory cd /usr/share/maxima/5.41.0/doc/html sudo gunzip contents.hhc.gz sudo gunzip index.hhk.gz ** Affects: maxima (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805686 Title: maxima-doc broken in bionic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maxima/+bug/1805686/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
