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George OLson grglsn765 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 07:15:31 EDT 2011


On 09/05/2011 04:03 PM, Maf. King wrote:
> On Monday 05 Sep 2011 08:43:16 Maf. King wrote:
>> On Monday 05 Sep 2011 08:30:47 George OLson wrote:
>>> I am running gnucash 2.4 on KDE 4.7 and openSUSE 11.4. I have tried to
>>> open the help menu in gnucash, but I always get the error:
>>>
>>> "GnuCash could not find the files for the help documentation.  This is
>>> likely because the 'gnucash-docs' package is not installed."
>>>
>>> I have doublechecked with Yast and verified that I did in fact install
>>> gnucash-docs. Can someone tell me how to get the help menu to open the
>>> documentation for gnucash?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> George
>>
>> Hi George,
>>
>> Fo some reason SuSE seems always to have bugs relating to the GC docs.
>> Thought that it had been fixed years ago, I'll have to search the list
>> archives for the solution presented a few years ago (openSuSE 10.0?)
>>
>> in the meantime, try the following command in a terminal window:
>>
>> yelp /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash/C/gnucash-guide.xml
>>
>> (you may have to use YaST to install the yelp package - I did)
>>
>> HTH,
>> Maf.
>
> Hi George,
>
> Update - found this old thread.
>
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2007-February/019468.html
>
> which I have just tested on my openSuSE 11.4 box,  replacing the symlink
> /usr/bin/gnome-help ->  susehelp
> with
> /usr/bin/gnome-help  ->  /usr/bin/yelp
>
> allows GC Help ->  Contents to show as expected.
>
> I gave full, step-by step instructions are in the above thread, about 3 posts
> in, the only diference seems to be that gnome-help has moved from /opt/ to
> /usr/
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
>
>

Wait again, I think I found the gnome-help file in /usr/bin. Ok, I will 
proceed ahead...


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