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g2oo7fy

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Registered: 2009-10-06

Posts: 7

octave info documentation

Hi,

I'm reading a book that uses examples with matlab/octave. I installed octave 3.4.0-2 from extra. Everything works fine so far. But when I ask for octaves documentation I get an error:

octave:1> doc
info: /usr/share/info/octave.info: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
octave:2>

Is it intended not to include the info documentation in the main package? Would it be possible to provide a octave-doc package? Would be great, as it seems that octave is quite powerfull. And I really love to have the opportunity to browse help from interactive prompts (like in bash, pure and others)

Thanks!

Bjoern

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: octave info documentation

http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … k/PKGBUILD

  ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
  --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-docs

You need to rebuild it w/o the '--disable-docs'.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: octave info documentation

You could open a bug or feature request on the bug tracker.

g2oo7fy

Member

Registered: 2009-10-06

Posts: 7

Re: octave info documentation

@karol: Thanks, that helped for me.
@Snowman: I'm considering a feature request, but it will take some time. Have to read the guidlines first