On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:49:40PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> retitle 543564 emacs23-gtk: Info viewer cannot handle compressed dir files
> thanks
>
> > When trying to use info mode, C-h i, all I get is the error message
> > "Can't find the Info directory node".
> [...]
> Mine is shorter, although this is probably not relevant:
>
> ("/usr/local/share/info/" "/usr/local/info/" "/usr/share/info/emacs-23"
> "/usr/share/info/" "/usr/share/info/")
That's a little bizarre. Whatever.
> > $ ls -l /usr/share/info/dir*
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9616 2009-08-24 11:23 /usr/share/info/dir.gz
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29212 2009-08-24 11:23 /usr/share/info/dir.old
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1355 2009-07-02 22:53 /usr/share/info/dir.old.gz
>
> This is your problem, why is the dir file compressed? It is not here:
I don't know. I certainly didn't compress it.
> It seems that ginstall-info (and thus update-info-dir which is run
> whenever you install files into /usr/share/info) will write to "dir.gz"
> if it exists but "dir" does not. So gunzipping dir.gz should solve your
> problem.
Indeed it does!
> The other part of the problem is that the Emacs Info viewer should
> handle compressed dir files better. The standalone info program works
> just fine with them.
Agreed.
Julian
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