Gnucash not finding help files/tutorial

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hi Bill,

Am 16.04.2014 00:14, schrieb Bill Cassady:
> Instead it mungs up a URL on external browser with error message
> about browser can't read the code. 

Usually they are shown in Yelp. Did you install gnucash-docs and yelp?

> gnupage:~$ gnucash --version
> GnuCash 2.4.12
> Built 2013-04-02 from r22850M
> 
> gnupage:~$ uname -a
> Linux gnupage 3.8.0-26-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 17 21:43:33 UTC 
> 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I've spent a lot of time tracing down gnucash's files in hopes of 
> finding anything I recognize as configuration file to point gnucash to 
> the proper files. Those files seem to be intact as proven by loading 
> them manually into a browser -- but how to let gnucash where they are I 
> haven't found.

I have them below /usr/share/gnome/help/gnucash*, but the prefix may
vary between distributions.

> Can you help ?
> 
> Thanks-
> -Bill

HTH
Frank