From: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: install and info
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:03:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljwxsqlq.fsf@columbia.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1aiqs1q1u9.fsf@development.richardriley.net> (Richard Riley's message of "Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:29:02 +0200")
Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
> Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu> writes:
>
>> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> 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?
Yes, I have a local "dir" file. In my case,
% echo $INFOPATH
/home/jin/etc/info:
% ls /home/jin/etc/info/
dir emacs-w3m-ja.info emacs-w3m.info emms org
>
> 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 ...
As long as the file `dir' is in your $INFOPATH, it will be
searched before the one(s) in your system. And that's how I
override the system's while keep the system happy.
Xiao-Yong
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-08 13:20 install and info Richard Riley
2008-10-08 13:31 ` R: " Giovanni Ridolfi
2008-10-08 13:41 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-08 13:34 ` Xiao-Yong Jin
2008-10-09 5:45 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-09 12:41 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-09 13:08 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-09 13:30 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-09 14:16 ` Xiao-Yong Jin
2008-10-09 14:29 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-09 16:03 ` Xiao-Yong Jin [this message]
2008-10-10 12:22 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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