On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 07:49:59PM +0100, Jean Br�fort wrote:
> Le samedi 26 f�vrier 2005 � 11:59 -0500, J. Patrick Brewer a �crit :
> > Hello.
> >
> > I just installed gnumeric 1.4.2 from source on a linux machine. No problems.
> >
> > After running gnumeric I tried to peruse the documentation via the Help
> > menu, but only About worked.
> >
> > In particular when I tried to access Contents, I got the message "The
> > selected document could not be opened."
> >
> > When I tried Gnumeric on the Web I got "There was an error launching the
> > default action command associated with this location.
> >
> > When I tried Live Assistance, I got "The specified location is invalid."
> >
> > When I tried Report a Problem, I got "There was an error launching the
> > default action command associated with this location."
> >
> > When I tried About, it worked.
> >
> > I imagine I didn't load the documentation when I installed gnumeric, but I
> > couldn't find such a file at the gnumeric.org.
> >
> > I'll appreciate any help you can provide.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
>
> When you try to access help contents, gnumeric tries to execute:
> yelp ${prefix}/share/gnumeric/1.4.2/doc/C/gnumeric.xml
>
> Check if the file exist (it should). If it does not exist, most probably
> something went wrong during installation.
There was a bug in our packaging that will be fixed in 1.4.3
We had edited xmldocs.make to install into a custom location
but autogen.sh would wipe the changes and we did not notice.
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