Re: [Orgmode] Info file org does not exist

[Nick Dokos]

Nathan Neff <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> I apologize if this is a very simple question, but I'm using the
> latest org-mode and
> just switched to a Debian based distro.
> 
> I'm able to run make && sudo make install in the org-mode source directory, 
> but
> when I go to Emacs, I don't see the Org-mode documentation when I use C-h i.
> 
> When I run M-x org-info, I get the message "Info file org does not exist".
> 
> I looked through the Makefile for org, and found several interesting targets:
> 
> install-info
> 
> and
> 
> install-info-debian
> 
> I installed the texinfo package, then tried running:
> 
> sudo make install-info
> 
> I get this message:
> This is not dpkg install-info anymore, but GNU install-info
> See the man page for ginstall-info for command line arguments
> 
> I tried running:
> 
> sudo make install-info-debian
> 
> And I get the same message as above.
> 
> Any ideas?  I'm running Crunchbang Linux, which is Debian-based.
> 

No ideas about the problem but I do have a solution that might work for you
and bypass most of the problems. I don't "install" org at all: I just add
the appropriate paths (/path/to/org/lisp and /path/to/org/contrib/lisp) to
load-path. Similarly, I don't "install" the info file: I just added the
appropriate path to INFOPATH (which is set in my .profile, which is sourced
by some gdm startup script, so its settings are valid by the time my emacs
is started - YMMV). In summary:

o Set in .profile:

  INFOPATH=/path/to/org/doc:$INFOPATH
  export INFOPATH

o In the org git directory, after every git pull:

  make info


HTH,
Nick