Thank you davidson, Davor and Ben. I appreciate your help and have resolved the issue. I am not well versed with such details and yes I agree this question would have been better posed on an Ubuntu mailing list. Next time, I will be more careful. Regrads, Nishan
On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 at 10:34 davidson <david...@freevolt.org> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, davidson wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, Nishan Singh Mann wrote: > > > >> Hello, on Ubuntu 17.10 which to my knowledge is based on Debian > >> unstable, installing Emacs via $sudo apt install emacs and then > >> trying to view the Emacs manual using C-h r fails with error "Info > >> file emacs does not exist" The same set of instructions on Ubuntu > >> 16.04 works and one ends up with a local copy of the GNU emacs > >> manual. Did the documentation get delegated to another package or > >> am I missing something? Thanks, Nishan > > Regarding the differences you experience between Ubuntu 16.04 and > Ubuntu 17.10, it appears that the emacs24-common-non-dfsg package got > moved from the "main" component to the "universe" component, as can be > seen by examining the following files: > > Ubuntu 16.04, packages in "main" > > http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz > > Ubuntu 17.10, packages in "universe" > > http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/artful/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz > > [..] > > FOR UBUNTU > > > > As I recall, Ubuntu names its components somewhat differently; I > > don't believe it has a component named "non-free". So some > > translation is required to apply the workflow above to an Ubuntu > > system. It is my understanding that the Ubuntu's > > emacs24-common-non-dfsg package is in the "universe" component. > > ...as of Ubuntu 17.10, that is. > > -- Nishan Singh Mann
