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Bug 82000 - xmaxima (5.9.1-r1) can't find documentation
Summary: xmaxima (5.9.1-r1) can't find documentation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Science Related Packages
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: 67191 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2005-02-14 07:42 UTC by M. Edward Borasky
Modified: 2005-10-31 15:06 UTC (History)
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Description M. Edward Borasky 2005-02-14 07:42:02 UTC
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
Comment 1 Lars Petersen 2005-04-10 03:35:07 UTC
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
Comment 2 Lars Petersen 2005-04-10 03:35:59 UTC
Oops, without the "${D}", of course...
Comment 3 Olivier Fisette (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-04-17 11:37:19 UTC
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.
Comment 4 Olivier Fisette (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-04-17 12:05:38 UTC
*** Bug 67191 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 François Bissey 2005-10-31 15:06:51 UTC
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).