Re: error running texdoc

[Jerome Acks Jr <jracksjr@bellatlantic.net>]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 06:47:00PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:33:11PM -0700, Dave Price wrote:
> > I have tetex-doc installed, but when i try to run texdoc i get:
> > 
> > 
> > [davep@dp:~]$ texdoc geometry
> > /usr/bin/texdoc: eval: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `&'
> > /usr/bin/texdoc: eval: line 1: `xdvi /tmp/texdoc16758/geometry.dvi; rm
> > -f /tmp/texdoc16758/geometry.dvi; clean_tmp; &'
> 
> what version of debian are you running?
> I can't find a line like the one above in my version of texdoc.

I get same error. I'm using woody. There is bug filed:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=129009&repeatmerged=yes

If you gunzip
/usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/geometry/geometry.dvi.gz first, texdoc will
work. 
-- 
Jerome