[GNC] Reports and documentstion are blank on Linux

Tommy Trussell tommy.trussell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 17:38:56 EST 2022


I am running GnuCash installed via Flatpak on Ubuntu 22.04, and as far as I
can tell, I did not have to install the Help files separately. I just
looked and do not see a separate listing for help when I run $ flatpak list


On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 4:27 PM David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Daved
>
> The documentation has to be downloaded and installed separately on Linux.
> It is
> not packaged with the program in most cases.
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml.
> I think running nin
>
> Even when installed yelp does not seem to find the location from within the
> GnuCash program. It appears to be looking for a HTML index file and not
> the xml
> format that yelp uses by default. In a normal install of the documnetation
> it is
> installed to "/usr/local/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide" and
> "/usr/local/share/gnome/help/gnucash-help". If I start yelp in a terminal
> and
> point it to these location the guide and help manual open in yelp, but not
> when
> yelp is opened from within GnuCash itself (GnuCash 4.12 on Linux Mint 22).
> It is
> likely that an environment variable has not been correctly setup .
>
> I avoid this totally by accessing the online html versions of the help
> manual
> and the guide from https://lists.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-help/help.html
> and
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/index.html in a browser
> when I
> need to.
>
> David Cousens
>
> On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 21:00 +0000, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> > I have a Dell 7920 tower workstation with 2 x 26-core CPUs and 384 GB
> RAM.
> > Ubuntu 20.04 and GnuCash 4.12 are installed.
> >
> > I used the 'flatpack' installation method,
> >
> https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/07/install-gnucash-4-0-ubuntu-20-04-18-04/
> > which gets the latest version, rather than the older official Ubuntu
> > version.
> >
> > The problem is, many of the windows that I know display things on Windows
> > laptop with GnuCash, are just blank on Linux. Neither the Help ->
> Tutorial
> > and Concepts Guide or Help -> Contents show anything whatsoever - see
> > attachment. Customer reports give a similar screen.
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