What is makeinfo, and how do I get it?

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mike picture mike · Dec 3, 2008 · Viewed 237.8k times · Source

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)

Answer

Tuminoid picture Tuminoid · Dec 3, 2008

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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