GnuCash documentation (gnucash-docs-2.4.3-1.el6.noarch)...

[Geert Janssens]

On zaterdag 2 september 2017 17:13:47 CEST Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 2 Sep 2017 07:35:22 -0700 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > > On Sep 2, 2017, at 7:25 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com
> > > <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com>> wrote:
> > > 
> > > For some reason, yelp (yelp-2.28.1-17.el6_3.x86_64) crashes when reading
> > > the GnuCash help files (using the Help menu item).  Is there some other
> > > tool that can be used to read them?  Or some way to convert them to
> > > some other format?> 
> > Have you tested with a version of the GnuCash documents that's a little
> > more recent than 2013?
> 
> I don't believe a newer version of GnuCash will work under CentOS 6. GnuCash
> 2.4.3 works just fine for what I need to do.
> 
> It is not GnuCash's docs that are broken, but yelp-2.28.1-17.el6_3 itself.
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614034.
> 
> > That aside, they're available as online HTML and for download as PDF,
> > ebook, and mobi from www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml
> 
> OK, I guess I will have to download them sometime when I am someplace with
> faster Internet access (I have dial-up at home).
> 
> > <http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml>. If that's not sufficient you can
> > point
> > calibre at the docbook XML that you have installed and convert it to a
> > variety of other formats.
> 
> What is calibre?  I don't seem to have it installed on my CentOS 6 system.

Calibre started out as an ebook manager, supporting many different file 
formats. It also allows to convert between several of them. I don't think 
RHEL/Centos provide it.

Geert