When I run xmaxima (5.9.1-r1) it works fine until I try to access the documentation in the link in the lower pane. When you click on the "Full Documentation" link in the lower pane, you get an error message couldn't open "/usr/share/maxima/5.9.1/doc/html/maxima_toc.html": no such file or directory It looks like the ebuild is installing the documentation in the wrong place; it ends up in /usr/share/doc/maxima-5.9.1-r1/html and it should be in (as the error message indicates) /usr/share/maxima/5.9.1/doc/html
Try the following (as root): # ln -s /usr/share/doc/maxima-5.9.1-r1 /usr/share/maxima/5.9.1/doc That worked for me. Maybe a symlink ${D}/usr/share/doc/${PF} /usr/share/${PN}/${PV}/doc should be added at the end of the ebuild's src_install() function? HTH, Lars
Oops, without the "${D}", of course...
Thanks for the notice. In 5.9.1-r2, documentation is back to its right place, with a "/usr/share/doc/maxima-5.9.1-r2" symlink pointing to it to respect the Gentoo FSH.
*** Bug 67191 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
On ppc we are still on version 5.9.1 without anything else in ~ppc. I cannot even start xmaxima as it displays a message saying that it doesn't find the documentation and exit (after being invited to click OK in a box). maxima works fine (but I didn't try to access the documentation).