I got the message today "xfhelp4 is not installed" when clicking on the
Help button for the Mail Watcher xfce task bar plugin app, for a newly-
installed copy of Xubuntu, after adding the Mail Watcher to my task bar.

Then I tried apt-get install xfce4-utils. However, this didn't work. The
response said:

Package xfce4-utils is not available, but is referred to by another
package. [...] However, the following packages replace it:
xfce4-session:i386 xfce4-appfinder:i386 libxfce4ui-utils:i386
xfcd4-session xfce4-appfinder libxfce4ui-utils

It appears that this is actually an upstream XFCE bug: They've gotten rid of 
xfhelp4, and some of the panel apps are still referencing it. In support of 
this conclusion, I found two related bugs on their bugzilla (neither of which 
was for "Mail Watcher", though one is for "Screen Shooter", which is the panel 
app that was reported above):
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8847 [screen shooter app]
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8846 [power manager app]

I hesitate to report the Mail Watcher to XFCE because I'm not sure if
Xubuntu is running the latest version.

To reproduce this bug with Mail Watcher:
a) Right click on your XFCE toolbar, and choose Panel > Add New Items
b) Find "Mail Watcher" in the list. Click "Add" to add it to the panel.
c) Right click on the Mail Watcher app icon. Choose Properties.
d) Click the "Help" button in the bottom left.


** Bug watch added: Xfce Bugzilla #8847
   https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8847

** Bug watch added: Xfce Bugzilla #8846
   https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8846

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