From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olaf Meeuwissen Subject: Re: why was makefile changed to produce this? Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:14:54 +0900 Message-ID: <87r529ao41.fsf@avasys.jp> References: <22774.1318942157@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGIkU-0002TG-4G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:07:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGIkS-0008Hc-24 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:07:05 -0400 Received: from ekc4.avasys.jp ([210.228.20.165]:42611) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGIkR-0008HU-Ka for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:07:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <22774.1318942157@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (Nick Dokos's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:49:17 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Cc: Jude DaShiell , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Nick Dokos writes: > Jude DaShiell 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: > > $ 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 This only works for installed packages, though, as it searches the files below /var/lib/dpkg/info, IIRC. BTW, dpkg forwards that request to dpkg-query. > [...] > > $ goo > The program 'goo' is currently not installed. To run 'goo' please ask your administrator to install the package 'goo' In which case `apt-cache show goo` may be of help. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962