I am running GnuCash installed via Flatpak on Ubuntu 22.04, and as far as I can tell, I did not have to install the Help files separately. I just looked and do not see a separate listing for help when I run $ flatpak list
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 4:27 PM David Cousens <davidcousen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Daved > > The documentation has to be downloaded and installed separately on Linux. > It is > not packaged with the program in most cases. > https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml. > I think running nin > > Even when installed yelp does not seem to find the location from within the > GnuCash program. It appears to be looking for a HTML index file and not > the xml > format that yelp uses by default. In a normal install of the documnetation > it is > installed to "/usr/local/share/gnome/help/gnucash-guide" and > "/usr/local/share/gnome/help/gnucash-help". If I start yelp in a terminal > and > point it to these location the guide and help manual open in yelp, but not > when > yelp is opened from within GnuCash itself (GnuCash 4.12 on Linux Mint 22). > It is > likely that an environment variable has not been correctly setup . > > I avoid this totally by accessing the online html versions of the help > manual > and the guide from https://lists.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-help/help.html > and > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/index.html in a browser > when I > need to. > > David Cousens > > On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 21:00 +0000, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > I have a Dell 7920 tower workstation with 2 x 26-core CPUs and 384 GB > RAM. > > Ubuntu 20.04 and GnuCash 4.12 are installed. > > > > I used the 'flatpack' installation method, > > > https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/07/install-gnucash-4-0-ubuntu-20-04-18-04/ > > which gets the latest version, rather than the older official Ubuntu > > version. > > > > The problem is, many of the windows that I know display things on Windows > > laptop with GnuCash, are just blank on Linux. Neither the Help -> > Tutorial > > and Concepts Guide or Help -> Contents show anything whatsoever - see > > attachment. Customer reports give a similar screen. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
