Re: [Orgmode] Re: install and info

[Richard Riley]

Xiao-Yong Jin <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Riley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Bernt Hansen <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On three systems I have access to the info files are in /usr/share/info
>>>
>>>   - Debian
>>>   - FreeBSD
>>>   - Ubuntu
>>
>> Debian and Ubuntu should be the same I would think since Ubunti is
>> Debian based.
>>
>> But there is an org which ships with emacs. I would expect the info file
>> from that to be there.
>>
>> If one installs from CVS/git should it not be in /usr/local/share/info ?
>>
>> I really am not sure personally and frequently have had issues with
>> other packages and the installation and location of Info files.
>>
>
> This is the real problem.  I guess most of the package
> managers are not happy with conflicting files from different
> packages.  Gentoo, archlinux and FreeBSD are all not happy
> with this.  So I just decided to install info files some
> where in my home directory and prepend that to my $INFOPATH.
>
> Xiao-Yong

Did you have a local "dir" file too or put in a link into one of the
others?

I suspect this is getting a little OT now and more "How does info work"
:-; But it's reassuring to hear that others scratch their heads a little
too. I have lots of unresolved dir links since I removed (uninstalled
properly) emacs 22 and 21 and went for CVS Emacs 23 and that only adds
to my info woes ...

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