Oh and I should have said, I just tried all of the items on the Help menu, and they seem to work fine. GnuCash 4.12+ flatpak on Ubuntu 22.04
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 4:38 PM Tommy Trussell <tommy.truss...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
