Re: texdoc doesn't find documentation

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Hallo Frank,

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> my texdoc does not work.
>>
>> % texdoc -l amsldoc  
>> Can't find documentation for `amsldoc'
>> % texdoc -s amsldoc
>> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf.gz
>>
>> I'm using TeX‐Live 2007. Can you give me a hint what I'm should looking
>> for?
>
> kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF/doc'

/home/joerg/.texmf/doc:/usr/share/texmf/doc:/usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc

> This should give a list of directories, and the one where amsldoc is
> (still /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/latex/amslatex/amsldoc.pdf.gz?)
> should be among them.

There are many symlinks on the way to the file. Maybe texdoc is confused.

% ls -l /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf.gz 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56  8. Mär 14:05 \
 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf.gz -> \
 ../../../texlive-latex-base/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf.gz

But

% ls -l /usr/share/texmf-texlive/texlive-latex-base/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf.gz
ls: cannot access \
  /usr/share/texmf-texlive/texlive-latex-base/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf.gz: \
  No such file or directory

Bye, Jörg.
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