Re: reg problem in executing octave command

[David Bateman]

lokesh rajendran wrote:
> dear all,
> i use the following octave version,
> GNU Octave, version 2.1.73 (i586-mandriva-linux-gnu).
> Copyright (C) 2006 John W. Eaton.
>
> i'm not able to execute 'help menu' in my konsole while working on
> octave.the following was the error message:
>
> octave:7> help -i multiple plot
> sh: info: command not found
> error: help: unable to find info
> error: help: you need info 2.18 or later (texinfo 3.12)
>
> however ordinary 'help' command is working.

"help" uses "makeinfo" to parse the texinfo help strings, while "help
-i" calls "info" to open the manual. The two cases are different. I
suspect that you don't have the mandrake package containing info
installed and the RPM you used to install octave had this as a missing
dependency.. On my mandriva 2006 machine I get the follwoing


% urpmf `which info`
ncurses:/usr/bin/infocmp
ncurses:/usr/bin/infotocap
netpbm:/usr/bin/infotopam
info:/usr/bin/info
info:/usr/bin/infokey
sc68:/usr/bin/info68
emboss:/usr/bin/infoalign
emboss:/usr/bin/infoseq

So try running "urpmi info".. That is if you have urpmi setup correctly.
Otherwise go to www.pbone.net and find and install the package with "rpm
-Uvh"..

D.

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