Mike --- thanks for trying to make ubuntu a better host for octave. I do think that Ma has a good point though.
If you do 'sudo apt-get install octave', you pick up a lot of things, including the man page, and the man page indicates that you can see the documentation for octave from within octave by typing 'doc' (without the quotes) to the octave prompt. This in fact does not work, so it looks like a bug somewhere. Now, in these days of mighty search engines, one can locate this page pretty quickly and rectify things by 'sudo apt-get install octave-info'. So maybe not so serious a bug. However, actually fixing it would seem to require some action like either (a) forking the man page for octave to get rid of the false statement, or (b) forking the code for octave so that when you type 'doc' it responds with a message like 'please install octave-info', or (c) merging the octave-info and octave packages. (Personally, i think (a) and (b) would be insane, and (c) might not be politically possible. But although there certainly may be some users who want the complex program without all forms of the documentation installed, i wonder what their count is, and how serious their concerns are on our modern computers with RAM measured in gigabytes and disk measured in terabytes.) But no matter what, i do appreciate your providing a work-around in the form of a path to add the documentation to the complex software product. Thanks for your help, and cheers!! :) :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1194712 Title: doc function doesn't work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/octave/+bug/1194712/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
