On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 11:19:02AM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: >> I installed the package libfftw3-doc in order to get the info form of >> the fftw documentation. >> >> Nevertheless, when i try to to run the Info-menu command on it (i.e., >> type 'm'), i get a message >> Can't find fftw3.info-1 or any compressed version of it >> (which comes from info-insert-file-contents). >> >> (In the stand-alone version of info, i get the shorter message "Cannot >> find node ''.") >> >> I tried doing update and then dist-upgrade to make sure i didn't have >> some broken package, but that made no difference. >> >> I tried removing and installing the package again, with the same >> behavior inside emacs. >> >> So i would like to get some more details about what apt is actually >> doing so i can figure out what to do. > > Try: > > dpkg -L libfftw3-doc > > which should list all the files installed by that package. Then > go and inspect them. > > -dsr-
Thanks Dan! That does indeed show all the fiiles installed, and they include fftw3.info.gz in /usr/share/info/ That looks like the right place for the file as well (lots of other *.info.gz files there). The file does not look corrupt although perhaps the format is unexpected. Anyhow, your suggestion does make the problem much more tractable. dan
