Linux ghelp error message

[Graham P Davis]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 08:59:18 +0000
Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 February 2015 at 05:05, Plutocrat <plutocrat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just solved this after following a few false trails on the
> > internet, so thought I'd post it to the mailing list for posterity.
> > I'm running Gnucash on Linux Mint 17, (but I guess any
> > Debian/Ubuntu distro might have the same problem). I clicked on the
> > Help link from Gnucash and got
> >
> >         The URI ‘ghelp:gnucash-help’ does not point to a valid page.
> >
> > The solution: to install the docs! These come as a separate
> > package, so sudo apt-get install gnucash-docs
> > does the trick.
> 
> That is interesting, I believe that on Ubuntu the docs are
> automatically installed so I would have expected the same in Mint.

Just as an aside for openSUSE KDE users, although the doc packages are
installed with Gnucash automatically, you have to add "yelp" to the
packages to be installed before you can access the documentation.

-- 
Graham Davis  [Retired Fortran programmer - now a mere computer user]
openSUSE Tumbleweed (64-bit); KDE 4.14.4; Kernel: 3.18.3;
Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 
(using nouveau driver); Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)