On 23-Feb-99 Michael Perry wrote:
>
> On 22 Feb, S.Toms wrote:
>>
>> Michael Perry wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone happen to know where I can find this? I want to compile
>>> something that is looking for this particular file. I searched my
>>> system high and low and do not have this thing. I searched at
>>> www.rufus3.org for it; bit its the proverbial needle in a haystack
>>> problem. I do not have suse 6 disks now. Unfortunately left them at
>>> the office.
>>>
>>> Even a hint is happily accepted!! :)
>>
>> unfortanately I can;t recall which package it resides in on the suse
>> distro CD bu on the slackware CD its part of the texinfo package, which
>> creates the info files on the system. You could prolly find the most
>> recent version on the GNU site, around 3.12 or better.
>
> Well, I discovered a catch-22 sort of thing that perhaps someone can
> advise me on. texinfo does not include /sbin/install-info. Its in a
> package called info. If you try to rpm install info it claims it hits
> texinfo. If you uninstall texinfo yast does not work. So that put me
> back to the original spot. I cannot compile balsa because it wants
> files that I cannot install. I need to install GTK+1.2 but it wants
> /sbin/install-info but I can't install info because it bumps against
> texinfo. Wierd... Really wierd. Is anyone using balsa that they
> compiled on suse 6?
> --
> Michael Perry
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On my SuSE 6.0 system install-info is in /usr/bin so rpm's could be installed
with the --nodeps switch, or if it causes a compile to fail maybe a symlink in
/sbin will cure it.
Hope this helps.
Regards Jo
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