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

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 12:29:18AM +0200, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> GnuCash is using Gnome's help browser Yelp under Linux.
> 1. yelp changed its protocoll from ghelp:DOCUMENT which was stored below 
> /usr[/local]/share/gnome/help/DOCUMENT/LANG/,
> to help:DOCUMENT below /usr[/local]/share/help/LANG/DOCUMENT/
> 2. After we realized that we adjusted gnucash's call of yelp.
> 3. Later we renamed gnucash-help to gnucash-manual.
> 
> So search your /usr for a directory gnucash-guide.
> You can always call
>   yelp PARh/TO/DOCUMENT
> from a command line,
> 
> To use the abbreviating protocoll you have to check, if the docs are 
> stored where the protocoll, which your yelp version understands, expects 
> them.
> 
Thanks Frank, I use xubuntu rather than ubuntu but yelp is in xubuntu
even though it's not really Gnome.  I should be able to sort things
out with your information above.

-- 
Chris Green