Fix for Gnucash Docs Problem Using Open Suse KDE4

Bob Smits bob at rsmits.ca
Thu Mar 4 13:26:53 EST 2010


On March 2, 2010 11:11:35 pm Bob Smits wrote:
> Since at least Opensuse 10.2 there has been a problem with Gnucash
> documentation for KDE3 and KDE4 users.
> 
> There is a workaround, at least for KDE4 users.
> 
> Gnucash needs yelp, the Gnome file viewer installed for the help file to
>  work. Apparently Gnome installs it automatically, but KDE4 doesn't.
> 
> The workaround is to install yelp.
> 
> Either
> yast -i yelp
> 
> or
> 
> zypper install yelp
> 
> I added it with zypper in a root
>  terminal and for the first time in years,
> clicking on help in gnucash got help to work.
> Jeremy Figgins appears to deserve the credit, as reported in Bugzilla
> Bug #558938
> 

I've since learned the fix worked in KDE4, but not on an older system running 
kDE3

Bob
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