cannot use tutorials

[Robert Smits]

On December 12, 2011 11:26:57 am Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Garey Beck <glbeck123 at att.net> writes:
> > Same problem on my laptop running Ubuntu 10.04
> >            Garey
> >
> > oldgeek <sentinel.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>I am running Ubuntu 10.04.  I installed Gnucash using the software
> >> center. I tried using the tutorial as suggested in the manual, but when
> >> I do I get the following message:
> >>
> >>GnuCash could not find the files for the help documentation.  This is
> >> likely because the 'gnucash-docs' package is not installed.
> >>
> >>I have checked Synaptic Package Manager and it says that gnucash-docs are
> >>installed.  I tried downloading gnucash-docs and ran ./compile.  It did
> >> it's thing and I still get the above message.  What am I not doing?
>
> Generally this means that the Gnome Help Viewer cannot find the
> documentation package.  This is the first I've heard of a problem on
> Ubuntu; historically SuSE has had a problem that was fixed by adding a
> symlink.  (I don't know offhand what needed to be linked).
>
> I suspect UB might be falling into the same hole now.
>

In Opensuse  from about version 10.3 to at least 11.4 you have to add yelp, 
the Gnome help package before documentation works. I Don't know about 12.1.

Bob.

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