Thank you. Do you know where the other docs get installed? Perhaps I could link /usr/share/help to the proper location for the time being.
On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 3:41 AM Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > Op zaterdag 8 oktober 2022 09:33:05 CEST schreef R Losey: > > > When I installed GnuCash in Ubuntu, it seemed to install everything -- > the > > > price quote program as well as the documentation... however, when I run > > > GnuCash, it won't find the documentation and speculates that it is not > > > installed (but it is). I can take my browser to > > > /usr/share/docs/gnucash-docs/gnucash-guide-en/index.html, and everything > > > looks fine. > > > > > > Is there some environment variable I need to set? It would be nice to > have > > > the "Help" buttons actually work. > > Ubuntu ships our documentation in the wrong format and in the wrong > location. > > GnuCash expects to find the documentation in docbook format and located in > > /usr/share/help. > > What you have found in /usr/share/docs is the html formatted version of > our documentation. That's only meant for general consumption via a browser, > not via gnucash (on linux). It was never even intended to be distributed > via linux distributions, though distributions are free to do so. It's just > not the format gnucash itself expects to present to you. > > This is a bug that was already in the upstream Debian distribution. > > Meanwhile is has been fixed there. I'm not sure what's needed to get the > fix in Ubuntu. Probably a bug report in the Ubuntu bug tracker ? > > > Regards, > > Geert > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
