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[John Ralls]

On Sep 5, 2011, at 1:03 AM, Maf. King wrote:

> On Monday 05 Sep 2011 08:43:16 Maf. King wrote:
>> On Monday 05 Sep 2011 08:30:47 George OLson wrote:
>>> I am running gnucash 2.4 on KDE 4.7 and openSUSE 11.4. I have tried to
>>> open the help menu in gnucash, but I always get the error:
>>> 
>>> "GnuCash could not find the files for the help documentation.  This is
>>> likely because the 'gnucash-docs' package is not installed."
>>> 
>>> I have doublechecked with Yast and verified that I did in fact install
>>> gnucash-docs. Can someone tell me how to get the help menu to open the
>>> documentation for gnucash?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> George
>> 
>> Hi George,
>> 
>> Fo some reason SuSE seems always to have bugs relating to the GC docs.
>> Thought that it had been fixed years ago, I'll have to search the list
>> archives for the solution presented a few years ago (openSuSE 10.0?)
>> 
>> in the meantime, try the following command in a terminal window:
>> 
>> yelp /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash/C/gnucash-guide.xml
>> 
>> (you may have to use YaST to install the yelp package - I did)
>> 
>> HTH,
>> Maf.
> 
> Hi George,
> 
> Update - found this old thread.
> 
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2007-February/019468.html
> 
> which I have just tested on my openSuSE 11.4 box,  replacing the symlink 
> /usr/bin/gnome-help -> susehelp
> with
> /usr/bin/gnome-help  -> /usr/bin/yelp
> 
> allows GC Help -> Contents to show as expected.
> 
> I gave full, step-by step instructions are in the above thread, about 3 posts 
> in, the only diference seems to be that gnome-help has moved from /opt/ to 
> /usr/
> 

Maf,

Please make a wiki page of your instructions and add a pointer to them in the FAQ question [1] where it mentions the SuSe bug.

Regards,
John Ralls