Bug#977147: texlive-base: "texdoc asymptote" pulls up an ancient version of the documentation
On 2020-12-12 09:05, Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> wrote:
>> "texdoc asymptote" starts up a viewer with documentation for asymptote
>> 1.79 and in (I think) Chinese. Meanwhile, I'm using asymptote 2.68.
> Indeed, the asymptote doc is not linked into the texmf tree and thus not
> found by texdoc. I faintly remember it was in former times, strange.
It used to work. I had always run "texdoc asymptote" and got the
current documentation, at least until asymptote 2.44. I'm not sure when
the problem showed up, however, as I'd pinned asymptote to that version
until a week ago (due to a backwards-incompatible change in asymptote's
behavior that would have messed up my next textbook's figures).
> I will fix it.
>
> basically
> mkdir -p /usr/share/texmf/doc/support/asymptote/
> ln -s ../../../../doc/asymptote/asymptote.pdf /usr/share/texmf/doc/support/asymptote/asymptote.pdf
> mktexlsr /usr/share/texmf/
> should (it did here) make
> texdoc asymptote
> bring up the correct doc.
That works here too. Thank you.
-Sanjoy
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