On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 07:27:02PM -0700, James R. Phillips wrote: >--- Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:33:33PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> > Rolf Maier wrote: >> > > If I type 'info man' I get multiple listings to help on fftw3 and >> > >Octave, >> > >and nothing else. Can anyone tell me what might have happened, >> > >and hence what I need to fix? >> >> Manually run /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh.done >> > >Sometimes setup.exe runs that script. What triggers that?
The existence of .info files in your .tar.bz2 file. A dependency is added to setup.ini automatically, if that is the case. From setup.ini: sdesc: "The GNU Octave language for numerical computations" ldesc: "The GNU Octave language for numerical computations Octave is a (mostly Matlab (R) compatible) high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically." category: Math requires: cygwin lapack gnuplot less libreadline6 texinfo _update-info-dir >Is it necessary to have a post-install script if setup does it for you >anyway? update-info-dir isn't foolproof (it isn't necessarily triggered if you download files to your system and then install them) so, yes, it is best to have a postinstall script to do this. cgf
