From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: why was makefile changed to produce this? Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:49:17 -0400 Message-ID: <22774.1318942157@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49137) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RG96f-0000M8-Ek for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:49:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RG96d-0000Zj-Sa for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:49:21 -0400 Received: from g6t0187.atlanta.hp.com ([15.193.32.64]:37554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RG96d-0000ZX-Ng for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:49:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Jude DaShiell of "Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:27:41 EDT." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jude DaShiell Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Jude DaShiell wrote: > My bad, I was missing texinfo package and thought that had already been > installed. Once that got installed, everything works as well as it did > earlier this year. If I knew what path that error took, I'd write what > might be a better error message for it asking for the texinfo package to > be installed. > > Here is a useful command that you can use on Debian and Ubuntu systems in situations like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ dpkg -S makeinfo texinfo: /usr/bin/makeinfo octave3.2-common: /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/help/__makeinfo__.m emacs23-common: /usr/share/emacs/23.1/lisp/textmodes/makeinfo.elc texinfo: /usr/share/man/man1/makeinfo.1.gz --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- It tells you the packages containing files that match the argument to the command. Also, on modern Ubuntu, it is often the case that when you try to execute a command by hand and it is not found, the system will suggest the installation of a package: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ foo No command 'foo' found, did you mean: Command 'fio' from package 'fio' (universe) Command 'goo' from package 'goo' (universe) Command 'fop' from package 'fop' (universe) Command 'fox' from package 'objcryst-fox' (universe) Command 'xoo' from package 'xoo' (universe) Command 'zoo' from package 'zoo' (universe) foo: command not found $ goo The program 'goo' is currently not installed. To run 'goo' please ask your administrator to install the package 'goo' --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- HTH, Nick PS I have no idea what the package/command ``goo'' does.