Installing documentation

Glenn Johnson glennpj at charter.net
Mon Feb 17 00:58:46 CST 2003


On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:30:30PM -0800, Chris Lyttle wrote:

> OK then this should be the right location for the docs. If you check
> in the /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/help/gnucash dir you should see the
> following subdirs;
> 
> C/
> de_DE
> C/figures
> C/gnucash-guide
> C/gnucash-help
> C/gnucash-guide/figures
> C/gnucash-help/figures
> C/gnucash-guide/stylesheet
> C/gnucash-help/stylesheet

Yes, they are all there.

> The C and de_DE dirs have the xml files that are used in gnome2 in
> them and the help-search-index.db, the figures dirs have the pictures,
> the stylesheet dirs have stylesheet pictures and the html files are in
> the -guide and -help dirs. If your installation did not make the html
> files you will not see them in the -guide and -help dirs. I suspect
> this is your problem.

The html files are there.

> If you see them there, but the internal help does not show
> them then this is a bug and you should file a bug report at
> bugzilla.gnome.org. One last thing you could do, if you are using
> GNOME2 the xml docs should show up in the gnome help (yelp).

I am using GNOME2.2 but they do not show up in yelp.  Does that provide 
a clue?

Thanks.

> Chris
>
> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 21:11, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 03:29:39PM -0800, Chris Lyttle wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 14:03, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have gnucash 1.8.1 installed and working fine.  I got the
> > > > gnucash-docs-1.8.0 tar file and installed it.  However, I still
> > > > can not get the documentation to load.  The documentation got
> > > > installed into /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/help/gnucash.
> > > >
> > > > If that is not the right location, where should it be installed?
> > > > If that is the right location then how do I make gnucash see it?
> > >
> > >
> > > You need to give us some more information. What OS/distro/etc are
> > > you compiling them on?
> >
> > FreeBSD-5.0.
> >
> > > Are you certain that you have the requirements to compile the docs
> > > as stated in the README?
> >
> > Yes.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj at charter.net


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