Re: install-info fails for many packages

[Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Jan Tomasek wrote:

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> > Perhaps you have somehow replaced debian's install-info with the GNU
> > one, which has a very different purpose. I suggest you check out:
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> Shame on me! I'm very sorry, I installed TexLive7 and allowed it to place
> links in /usr/local/bin :((
> 
> | semik:~# which install-info
> | /usr/local/bin/install-info
> | semik:~# ls -l /usr/local/bin/install-info
> l rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           47 Oct 16 14:53 /usr/local/bin/install-info -> /usr/local/TeXLive7/bin/i386-linux/install-info
> 


Of course this would not be a problem if dpkg would set it's path to 
so as to make sure it would run anything outside of /usr/bin /bin etc....
when running postinstall scripts...



> Bdale Garbee could you please close that bug report? I'm very sorry for
> this.
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> Jan Tomasek aka Semik
> http://www.tomasek.cz/
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