Problem with gnucash-docs-2.0.1

[Robert Smits]

 On Sunday 18 February 2007 14:52, Maf. King wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, Maf for the help.

I did this on my laptop, and it still doesn't display Gnucash help, but it 
worked fine on my work desktop. Both are running SuSE 10.1 and Gnucash 2.04.

Go figure.

Thanks, Bob
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