Re: [help-texinfo] Unable to find makeinfo

[tomas]

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On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:00:23PM -0500, Andrew DePalma wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I have taken upon myself the daunting task of attempting to build
> Linux from Scratch (LFS 6.4) on Ubuntu 8.04 installed to hard drive
> as the host system.

:-)

> To be able to do this, LFS requires that makeinfo be installed. The
> instructions state that texinfo must be installed just so makeinfo is
> avaiable. Ubunbtu 8.04 does not have texinfo installed by default
> so i downloaded and installed texinfo-4.13.
> 
> The installation seemed to go through without any problems, however
> makeinfo does not seem to be anywhere in the whole file system,

It should be. According to [1] there should be an /usr/bin/makeinfo in
the package texinfo for Ubuntu 8.04. Something seems to have gone awry
with i(or after) the install. You might want to try to de-install and
re-install the package.

Of course there is the possibility that the package is buggy, but that
is unlikely, because those file lists are generated automatically.

[1] <http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/texinfo/filelist>

Regards
- -- tomás
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