RE: How to get info pages for Emacs?

["KARR, DAVID" <dk068x@att.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tassilo Horn [mailto:tsdh@gnu.org]
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 11:52 AM
> To: KARR, DAVID
> Cc: Dale Snell; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: How to get info pages for Emacs?
> 
> "KARR, DAVID" <dk068x@att.com> writes:
> 
> >> That file is called "dir".
> >
> > Ok, that's helpful.
> > ------------------
> > % ls -lt dir emacs*
> > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  83214 Jun  3 13:31 dir
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  10853 Jun  9  2014 emacs-gnutls.info.gz
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  28148 Jun  9  2014 emacs-mime.info.gz
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 651392 Jun  9  2014 emacs.info.gz
> > -------------------
> >
> > However, the "dir" file doesn't have the main Emacs nodes.  It
> looks
> > exactly like what I see in Emacs.
> 
> Strange.  I think that file is used both by info on the command
> line and
> by emacs, so you should get the same index in both.
> 
> Anyway, normally the package manager should update the dir file
> when
> packages get installed or removed but that doesn't seem to have
> happened
> on your system for whatever reasons.  But you can do that manually,
> too:
> 
>   % install-info info-file dir-file
> 
> adds an entry for the given info-file in the given dir-file.  So
> you can
> do that for the missing files and hopefully that will resolve the
> issue.

Ok, well, that fixed it.  I can now see the Emacs info both from the command line and from within Emacs, and the variable is set and correct.  It seems likely this was some sort of flaw in the image assembly.  I'll first ask the person who gave me access to this image.  We'll see how far he can take it.