Package: gimp Version: 2.8.2-2 Followup-For: Bug #694721 Dear Maintainer, Even after installing gimp-help-en I am unable to get any help in gimp, local or remote. This seems more than a trivial problem, though perhaps it was triggered by the exact sequence of my actions.
* What led up to the situation? Installed and ran gimp, opening a png image to edit. Selected help | context help from the menu and then clicked on one of the brushes in the paintbrush window. This warning came up <popup> Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: The specified location is not supported Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS? </popup> Unlike the original poster I have not explicitly set any help options or requested remote help. Note I'm running under KDE. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? With aptitude installed gimp-help-en (oddly, there were 2 entries with the same version number), which also installed gimp-help-common. *While* the installl was in progress I tried help again (general help, not context help, I think) and got the same message. After installation tried help again, same error. Shut down and restarted help. Tried context help again, same error. I tried opening http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-help.xml in iceweasel. It did retrieve a page, though it was unformatted. * What was the outcome of this action? Warning dialogue shown above. * What outcome did you expect instead? Help, preferably locally or at least remote. The workaround is to visit the gimp web site. BTW, the reason I wanted help was that I wanted to change the size of the star paintbrush; when I open the properties dialogue for it all the controls are greyed out. Theory: gimp-help is missing dependencies. Thanks. *** End of the template - remove these lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gimp depends on: ii gimp-data 2.8.2-2 ii libaa1 1.4p5-40 ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2 ii libbabl-0.1-0 0.1.10-1 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libcairo2 1.12.2-3 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1+deb7u1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100.2-1 ii libexif12 0.6.20-3 ii libexpat1 2.1.0-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1 ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 ii libgegl-0.2-0 0.2.0-2+nmu1 ii libgimp2.0 2.8.2-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5 ii libgs9 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2 ii libgudev-1.0-0 175-7.2 ii libice6 2:1.0.8-2 ii libjasper1 1.900.1-13 ii libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 1.8.1-3.4 ii libjpeg8 8d-1 ii liblcms1 1.19.dfsg-1.2 ii libmng1 1.0.10-3 ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1 ii libpng12-0 1.2.49-1 ii libpoppler-glib8 0.18.4-6 ii librsvg2-2 2.36.1-1 ii libsm6 2:1.2.1-2 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.38.1-2 ii libtiff4 3.9.6-11 ii libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 1.8.1-3.4 ii libwmf0.2-7 0.2.8.4-10.3 ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1 ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.13-1+deb7u1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0-4+deb7u1 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.1-1 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.10-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.3-1+deb7u1 ii python 2.7.3-4+deb7u1 ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3+b1 ii python2.7 2.7.3-6 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages gimp recommends: ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u1 Versions of packages gimp suggests: pn gimp-data-extras <none> ii gimp-help-en [gimp-help] 2.6.1-1 pn gvfs-backends <none> ii libasound2 1.0.25-4 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
