On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:30:34AM -0400, Sebastian Luque wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your help so far narrowing this down. Here is a more complete > description of what I did in TeX-live's installation script (<return> omitted > for brevity): > [...] > TeX-live added the symlinks in the directories specified, and > now /usr/bin/info is a symlink to /usr/share/TeX/bin/i386-linux/info. So it > seems that TeX-live replaced my original info binary for that symlink, which > doesn't work in my system. Additionally, I no longer have an info directory > within Emacs, even though all the info files are there in /usr/info. > > I followed a suggestion to reinstall the texinfo package, which I > did by uninstalling it first and then installing it again through apt. > However, I couldn't do the same with info. It uninstalled OK, but after > apt-get install info, I got the following message: > > No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. > install-info(/usr/share/info/info-stnd.info): unable to determine description > for `dir' entry - giving up > dpkg: error processing info (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > info > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > [sigh], it looks like I'm again in need of some input.
Seems like the TeX-Live installation completely messed up your info system. Maybe the original info files are still there somewhere and all you need to do is to put them into /usr/share/info and reconfigure the info package. I would suggest to install *all* non-Debian packages in /usr/local in the future to avoid interfering. Regards lal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
