[tex-live] texdoc perl

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Tue Dec 10 15:20:11 CET 2013


Hi

On Di, 10 Dez 2013, bnb at ams.org wrote:
>   bnb at tdev:~> texdoc amstheorem
>   Sorry, no documentation found for amstheorem.

Yes, true. But try
	texdoc amsmath
and you will get amsldoc and no warning.

>   bnb at tdev:~> texdoc perl
> 
> and immediately got another prompt -- and a
> frozen window (linux via an x-window from a

That is probably a broken setting of your desktop
trying to use the browser to open a pdf. On TL2013
the file that is selected by texdoc is 
	pdigree-perl.pdf
which is easily to be seen from
$ texdoc -l perl
 1 /home/norbert/tl/2013/texmf-dist/doc/support/pedigree-perl/doc/pedigree.pdf
   = Package documentation
 2 /home/norbert/tl/2013/texmf-dist/doc/support/pedigree-perl/doc/pedigree.ps
 3 /home/norbert/tl/2013/texmf-dist/doc/support/pedigree-perl/README
 4 /home/norbert/tl/2013/texmf-dist/doc/support/pedigree-perl/NEWS
Please enter the number of the file to view, anything else to skip: texdoc ^C  

> with tex live 2013, could that please be
> confirmed?

I cannot confirm.

> thanks.  (from a very weary user, whose
> firefox "went south" last week, requiring
> several hours for recovery with the attention
> of one of the sysadmins, since those of us at
> the bottom of the feeding chain don't have
> the ability to install *anything* executable
> on our workstations.)

Sorry, by crystal sphere is not clear enough at the moment, but
my wild guess is that:
* you have installed some special plugins/extensions of firefox
* firefox got updated on system level
* the extensions became incompatible or worse
But fundamentally I don't believe that it has *naything* to do
with firefox. It should open a pdf viewer.

Norbert

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