Installing Help and Tutorial files

dracus dracus at mit.edu
Mon Feb 26 18:37:06 EST 2007




dracus wrote:
> 
> Greetings, all;
> 
> I have recently installed Gnucash 2.0.4 under SuSE 10, from Source since I
> needed to install a whack of other software anyways (BTW, this was one of
> the most difficult installs I have done recently....  Only RT has been
> more difficult).  I then decided that having the help and tutorial
> documentation would be nice.  So I installed that.  Only Gnucash can not
> find where the help files are.  So I am assuming that I installed them to
> the incorrect location.  Where do I need to move them to so that Gnucash
> can find and use them?  Please let me know, and thanks in advance.
> 
> Dracus
> 
> 

Ok, I figured this one out.  You need to build the docs with the same prefix
directory as the original program was compiled with.  I missed this because
I installed the program itself from a binary rpm, and built the docs from
source.  Scanning the forums makes me think that a lot of people are doing
this (and not getting the docs built into the correct place), since I see a
few people with this same problem.  Also, a doc rpm was not available for
source of the program binary rpm.  At any rate, what I needed to do was:

untar the doc source tarball to a working directory, and cd into it
./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome
make
make install

And that worked.  You can check the file /tmp/gnucash.trace to see where
your build of gnucash is looking for documentation.  Just be certain to
shorten the prefix directory to be just the head of the gnome hirearchy,
since it will build other directories under that.

Good luck.

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