[GNC] GnuCash 'Help' returns "Dcoument not found" but I have gnucash-docs installed

R Losey rlosey at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 14:31:04 EDT 2023


On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:48 AM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Chris,
> The local help doesn't work with that release in Linux, just go to the
> website https://gnucash.org/ or maybe try searching your hard drive
> manually.  I have never tried that myself, so I don't know if that works.
>
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 10:45 AM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm running GnuCash 4.8 on [x]Ubuntu 22.04.2, I have gnucash-docs
> > installed as well as the gnucash and gnucash-common packages but when
> > I click on things in the Help menu I just get "Document not found".
> >
> > So, how do I get the help to work?
>

I seem to recall reading in these lists that it's a matter of Linux putting
the documents in a different place than where GnuCash is looking... I'm
assuming that there is a way to fix this with a symbolic link (or links),
but I don't recall the locations offhand.


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