What is makeinfo and how do I get it

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I m trying to build GNU grep  and when I run make  I get    snip   bin bash  line 9  makeinfo  command not found   What is makeinfo  and how do I get it    This is Ubuntu  if it makes a difference

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Another option is to use apt-file  i e  apt-file search makeinfo    It may or may not be installed in your distro by default  but it is a great tool for determining what package a file belongs to

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A few words on  what is makeinfo  -- other answers cover  how do I get it  well   The section  Creating an Info File  of the Texinfo manual states that     makeinfo is a program that converts a Texinfo file into an Info file    HTML file  or plain text    The Texinfo home page explains that Texinfo itself  is the official documentation format of the GNU project  and that it  uses a single source file to produce output in a number of formats  both online and printed  dvi  html  info  pdf  xml  etc      To sum up  Texinfo is a documentation source file format and makeinfo is the program that turns source files in Texinfo format into the desired output

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For Centos   I solve it by installing these packages   yum install texi2html texinfo    Dont worry if there is no entry for makeinfo   Just run   make all   You can do it similarly for ubuntu using sudo

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In  at least  Ubuntu when using bash  it tells you what package you need to install if you type in a command and its not found in your path  My terminal says you need to install  texinfo  package   sudo apt-get install texinfo

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For Centos   I solve it by installing these packages   yum install texi2html texinfo    Dont worry if there is no entry for makeinfo   Just run   make all   You can do it similarly for ubuntu using sudo

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In  at least  Ubuntu when using bash  it tells you what package you need to install if you type in a command and its not found in your path  My terminal says you need to install  texinfo  package   sudo apt-get install texinfo

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In  at least  Ubuntu when using bash  it tells you what package you need to install if you type in a command and its not found in your path  My terminal says you need to install  texinfo  package   sudo apt-get install texinfo

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Need to install texinfo  configure will still have the cache of its results so it will still think makeinfo is missing  Blow away your source and unpack it again from the tarball  run configure then make

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If you build packages from scratch    Download a version from here  http   www gnu org software texinfo   As of writing  version 5 2 is the latest   Learn how to build here  http   www linuxfromscratch org lfs view stable chapter05 texinfo html  LFS project is constantly updating  but texinfo build install instructions rarely change     Specifically  if you build bash from source  install docs  including man pages  will fail  silently  without makeinfo available

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If it doesn t show up in your package manager  i e  apt-cache search texinfo  and even apt-file search bin makeinfo is no help  you may have to enable non-free restricted packages for your package manager   For ubuntu  sudo  EDITOR  etc apt sources list and add restricted   deb http   archive ubuntu com ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse deb http   archive ubuntu com ubuntu bionic-security main deb http   archive ubuntu com ubuntu bionic-updates main   For debian  sudo  EDITOR  etc apt sources list and add non-free  You can even have preferences on package level if you don t want to clutter the package db with non-free stuff   After a sudo apt-get udpate you should find the required package

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If you build packages from scratch    Download a version from here  http   www gnu org software texinfo   As of writing  version 5 2 is the latest   Learn how to build here  http   www linuxfromscratch org lfs view stable chapter05 texinfo html  LFS project is constantly updating  but texinfo build install instructions rarely change     Specifically  if you build bash from source  install docs  including man pages  will fail  silently  without makeinfo available

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On SuSE linux  you can use the following command to install  texinfo    sudo zypper install texinfo   On my system  it shows it is downloading about 1000 MiB  so make sure you have enough free space

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A few words on  what is makeinfo  -- other answers cover  how do I get it  well   The section  Creating an Info File  of the Texinfo manual states that     makeinfo is a program that converts a Texinfo file into an Info file    HTML file  or plain text    The Texinfo home page explains that Texinfo itself  is the official documentation format of the GNU project  and that it  uses a single source file to produce output in a number of formats  both online and printed  dvi  html  info  pdf  xml  etc      To sum up  Texinfo is a documentation source file format and makeinfo is the program that turns source files in Texinfo format into the desired output

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If it doesn t show up in your package manager  i e  apt-cache search texinfo  and even apt-file search bin makeinfo is no help  you may have to enable non-free restricted packages for your package manager   For ubuntu  sudo  EDITOR  etc apt sources list and add restricted   deb http   archive ubuntu com ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse deb http   archive ubuntu com ubuntu bionic-security main deb http   archive ubuntu com ubuntu bionic-updates main   For debian  sudo  EDITOR  etc apt sources list and add non-free  You can even have preferences on package level if you don t want to clutter the package db with non-free stuff   After a sudo apt-get udpate you should find the required package

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On SuSE linux  you can use the following command to install  texinfo    sudo zypper install texinfo   On my system  it shows it is downloading about 1000 MiB  so make sure you have enough free space

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In  at least  Ubuntu when using bash  it tells you what package you need to install if you type in a command and its not found in your path  My terminal says you need to install  texinfo  package   sudo apt-get install texinfo

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Need to install texinfo  configure will still have the cache of its results so it will still think makeinfo is missing  Blow away your source and unpack it again from the tarball  run configure then make

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Another option is to use apt-file  i e  apt-file search makeinfo    It may or may not be installed in your distro by default  but it is a great tool for determining what package a file belongs to

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