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I have the same problem as identified here:

How can I launch the tutorial for the GNU info pages?

... but do not have sufficient reputation to make a comment. I don't think the single answer there is correct; all that H does is open the list of basic key bindings, as stipulated on the first page when info info is run.

I do vaguely remember the info tutorial; unsurprisingly it was very similar to the Emacs tutorial, and as @the_velour_fog mentions, hitting h only opens the man page, not the tutorial.

I tried the advice given in:

Question about info program as described in "Introduction to Linux" by Machtelt Garrels

... and installed texinfo-doc-nonfree (and then the whole of texinfo) but this did not work.

I also tried installing emacs just in case. Inside emacs, typing Ctrl-h, i shows the info contents; h is specifically mentioned there ("... gives a primer for first-timers"), but hitting it throws the error on the status line Info file info does not exist.

A search in aptitude for ^info-doc doesn't return too many results apart from the already installed texinfo-doc-nonfree), and none IMHO are likely candidates.

I have googled cannot start "info tutorial" and it appears there is a specific bug in Ubuntu here, but I get the man page, rather than the error message in the bug report ("Cannot find node '(info)Help'")

I would be interested in knowing if others have a similar result, if this may be a result of simply not identifying the correct doco package to install, or if I should report this to the maintainers. And should this question be merged with the original post from @the_velour_fog?

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The solution was to install emacs24-common-non-dfsg, which was prompted by this post.

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/7238/info-file-emacs-does-not-exist

You may need a specific version of that package, e.g. emacs[xx]-common-non-dfsg to match the installed version of emacs.

It now works correctly when info info is invoked, then h. It also works with info, then h.