10.04LTS: makeinfo vs texinfo

[hvn2]

Hi,

I'm running Lucid (10.04) and due to 3rd party apps I can't upgrade to 12.04. Now I have to install makeinfo but find that it's not there and that I should use texinfo. However, the installation script keeps asking for makeinfo. What is the best way to handle this ?

Thanks

[apmcd47]

Have you actually installed texinfo? According to this link makeinfo is part of the texinfo package. I have just installed texinfo on my 12.04 precise installation, after first checking that makeinfo was not on the system, and it is now on my computer, in /usr/bin.

If you have installed texinfo the next question is can you find makeinfo with

type makeinfo

followed by is /usr/bin in your $PATH?

Andrew

[hvn2]

Ok, solved it. I had texinfo, but makeinfo wasn't found:

$ type makeinfo
bash: type: makeinfo: not found texinfo

/usr/bin is in my path. And, looking at the output of

locate texinfo

it's all in /usr/lib and /usr/share, but not in /usr/bin. So I installed texinfo by apt-get and now I get

$ type makeinfo
makeinfo is /usr/bin/makeinfo

So what texinfo was installed in the first place I don't know.

Thanks for the help. It's working now.