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hi, i can't seem to use texinfo correctly. quite a few man pages reference texinfo, e.g. "man md5sum" states The full documentation for md5sum is maintained as a Texinfo manual. ...
  1. 02-20-2008 #1
    kai12
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    using texinfo

    hi, i can't seem to use texinfo correctly.

    quite a few man pages reference texinfo, e.g. "man md5sum" states
    The full documentation for md5sum is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
    If the info and md5sum programs are properly installed at your site,
    the command

    info md5sum

    should give you access to the complete manual.
    but "info md5sum" only shows the man page in the info viewer.

    what is missing on my system? i have the texinfo package install (obviously),
    maybe i need some *-doc packages?


    on a sidenote, i'm not really happy with the info viewer. are there good
    alternative ways to view texinfo (preferably non-KDE)?

    thanks! kai
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    daark.child
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    The same thing happens on my openSUSE 10.3 installation. As far as I know, if a command does not have an info page, info will show the manpage, so this is probably whats happening with md5sum.
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