From: Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen@avasys.jp>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why was makefile changed to produce this?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:14:54 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r529ao41.fsf@avasys.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22774.1318942157@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (Nick Dokos's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:49:17 -0400")
Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> 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:
>
> $ 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
This only works for installed packages, though, as it searches the files
below /var/lib/dpkg/info, IIRC.
BTW, dpkg forwards that request to dpkg-query.
> [...]
>
> $ goo
> The program 'goo' is currently not installed. To run 'goo' please ask your administrator to install the package 'goo'
In which case `apt-cache show goo` may be of help.
Hope this helps,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION
FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom
http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-18 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-18 8:27 why was makefile changed to produce this? Jude DaShiell
2011-10-18 12:49 ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-18 23:14 ` Olaf Meeuwissen [this message]
2011-10-18 23:41 ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-19 11:26 ` Rémi Vanicat
2011-10-19 14:59 ` Nick Dokos
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-18 5:02 Jude DaShiell
2011-10-18 7:15 ` Michael Brand
2011-10-18 7:54 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-10-18 8:41 ` Olaf Meeuwissen
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