mis-installation of package

[Sean Sieger]

Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> writes:

    On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 08:37 -0500, Sean Sieger wrote:
    >     better to check "texinfo --version"
    > 
    > And `info --version' gives 4.12.

    "info" or "texinfo"?
    And did you check whether you have the package "texinfo" installed?

I have TeXLive 2008 installed.  Doing `texinfo --version' doesn't do
anything.  `info --version' gives, 

sean at g41r2f1:~$ info --version
info (GNU texinfo) 4.12

Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

    > Thanks Mario, time to reinstall 8.10

    Why? My post included instructions that I think will fix it. Better to
    try that first (and if it does not work we'll try other things)

I thought that I have tried what you have suggested, but could you
please remind me of what you think ought to correct the problem?