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Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable

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On 22/01/18 15:33, Nishan Singh Mann wrote:
> Hello, on Ubuntu 17.10 which to my knowledge is based on Debian 
> unstable, installing Emacs via $sudo apt install emacs and then trying 
> to view the Emacs manual using C-h r fails with error "Info file emacs 
> does not exist" The same set of instructions on Ubuntu 16.04 works and 
> one ends up with a local copy of the GNU emacs manual. Did the 
> documentation get delegated to another package or am I missing something?
> Thanks,
> Nishan
>

You might be missing a package:


apt install *emacs24-common-non-dfsg*

Core documentation has been split due to dfsg issues.

Refer to:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForDebian

for some light bedtime reading :-)

Kind regards,

D

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Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable Nishan Singh Mann <nishan.singh.mann@gmail.com> - 2018-01-22 05:40 +0100
  Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable Davor Balder <dbalder@ozemail.com.au> - 2018-01-22 06:20 +0100
  Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2018-01-22 06:40 +0100
  Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-01-22 16:10 +0100
    Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-01-22 16:40 +0100
      Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable Nishan Singh Mann <nishan.singh.mann@gmail.com> - 2018-01-23 04:30 +0100

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