[GNC] Reports and documentstion are blank on Linux

[Tommy Trussell]

Oh and I should have said, I just tried all of the items on the Help menu,
and they seem to work fine. GnuCash 4.12+ flatpak on Ubuntu 22.04

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 4:38 PM Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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