I tried to open the Calc manual in Info with these steps: 0 C-h i 1 m calc 2 error mentioned in the Subject In the top level Info directory, I could access most of the other nodes I tried. In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.13 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5) of 2016-07-03 built on rudiments Repository revision: 1e97ecb964a478e8b2f08b628695ac02b923eabe Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11604000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.5 (jessie) Recent messages: Composing main Info directory...done user-error: No such node or anchor: Top Making completion list... 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