[GNC] Reports and documentstion are blank on Linux

[David H]

Yes I've just been checking out the same thing on Ubuntu 22.04 and my docs
are all there and looking similar to the online docs - they seem to be
formatted slightly differently, like there's no "About This Document
<https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/titlepage.html>" in my
local version so difficult to tell what version I have - see attachments,
but seem to be working ok. I have built Gnucash manually previously on this
pc so I'm not sure where the docs came from :-)

I have a vague recollection I may have also had to update WebKitGtk for the
docs to work but don't hold me to it :-)

Refer also to the Gnucash instructions for installing the Flatpak version
at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak.

The release announcement (
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-announce/2022-September/000371.html
) states that docs aren't released with linux, not sure if that includes
Flatpak versions...

See below relevant snippets...

To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at
least *Gtk+
3.24*, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.54, *WebKitGtk 2.4*, GoogleTest 1.7.0, cmake 3.10
and SWIG 2.0.12. Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources
for the exact list of dependencies and versions.

GnuCash is also available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions
for installing and running may be found at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak.

If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 4.12 for yourself, the
source code can be downloaded from:

https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.12/gnucash-docs-4.12.tar.gzhttps://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.12/gnucash-docs-4.12.tar.gz

The documentation is included in the MacOS and Windows application bundles.

Hope this helps,

Regards David H.


On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 at 08:41, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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