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lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

where is gnu info?

Can't find in PATH.
pacman -S info can't do it either.

Thanks,

lang2

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: where is gnu info?

IIRC Arch filosophy says that /usr/share/doc and info pages are unneeded because of the excellent manpages

phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: where is gnu info?

Arch does not include info pages for 95% of packages, as almost no one uses them.  This is a design decision from long, long ago.

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lang2

Member

Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: where is gnu info?

I can understand this because gnu info is such a pain to use. But sometime, just sometime, it might come into handy.

Ah well.

So what is the option if one really needs it?

allucid

Member

Registered: 2006-01-06

Posts: 259

Re: where is gnu info?

recompile all packages with info docs or use a different distro. 

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: where is gnu info?

Or, more realistically, find what you need online.