Problem with gnucash-docs-2.0.1

[Maf. King]

On Sunday 18 Feb 2007, Robert Smits wrote:

> Chris, can you be more explicit about what the fix is?
>
> I'm not sure what a symlink is, where I find the one in question or what to
> do with it once I do  find it.


Hi Robert,

This is a bit general, as I don't have SuSE 10.2 installed (still on 10.1), 
nor do I have yelp installed.

symlink is short for symbolic link, and it allows one file on disk  to have 
multiple filenames/paths, in this case, the "gnome-help" program is another 
name for the susehelp program.

<disclaimer> You'll need a shell/console/terminal, and to be root for some of 
this. If you're not comfortable with this, it may be better to stop now, and 
find someone to help you in person... </disclaimer>

First, look at the program /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-help

type:
 ls -la /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-help  [enter] 

if you see output something like:
 lrwxrwxrwx  root root (size) (date) (time) gnome-help -> /usr/bin/susehelp
then you have the symlink Chris has described.  (the l at the start of the 
permissions, and the arrow to another file give it away!)

next, to find the  "yelp" program, type:
which yelp [enter]
this will give you the full path to the yelp program.  Make a note of this 
path.

Now, you need to become root.  (type su -  [enter])

remove the old link:
cd /opt/gnome/bin  [enter]

rm gnome-help  [enter]

make the new symlink:
ln -s <path to yelp from above> gnome-help  [enter]

check your work:
ls -la gnome-help [enter]

you should find that the output of ls is along the lines of 
gnome-help -> /opt/gnome/bin/yelp

then leave your shell (type "exit [enter]" twice).

HTH,
Maf.