David, I have the docs for 4.11 (i just haven't yet downloaded the 4.12 documentation release) built and installed and I'm currently running 4.12 of the program. When I request Help or the Guide from the Help Menu in GnuCash , yelp comes up with the following message "Document not found: The URI ‘help:gnucash-help/index’ does not point to a valid page.".
I will download the 4.12 docs and rebuild them to see if that fixes the problem, which it did. The 4.12 installs to "/usr/local/share/help/C/gnucash-guide" and "/usr/local/share/help/C/gnucash-help" not to the usr/local/share gnome/help " directory and then yelp successfully finds the uris. To build the docs I down loaded from https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.12/gnucash-docs-4.12.tar.gz and extracted the "gnucash-docs-4.12" from the tar.gz file to a directory under my home directory then opened a terminal in that gnucash-docs-4.12 directory then used the following commands mkdir build cd build cmake -GNinja -DWITH_MOBI=On ../ ninja sudo ninja install After that all is working as expected AFAIK you can now only configure the build with cmake (and not make) after V 4.7 of the docs. Both ninja-build and cmake have to be installed to build the docs ("sudo apt install cmake" then "sudo apt install ninja-build" at the terminal prompton Linux Mint) David Cousens On Sat, 2022-12-17 at 09:51 +1000, David H wrote: > Yes I've just been checking out the same thing on Ubuntu 22.04 and my docs are > all there and looking similar to the online docs - they seem to be formatted > slightly differently, like there's no "About This Document" in my local > version so difficult to tell what version I have - see attachments, but seem > to be working ok. I have built Gnucash manually previously on this pc so I'm > not sure where the docs came from :-) > > I have a vague recollection I may have also had to update WebKitGtk for the > docs to work but don't hold me to it :-) > > Refer also to the Gnucash instructions for installing the Flatpak version at > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak. > > The release announcement ( > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-announce/2022-September/000371.html > ) states that docs aren't released with linux, not sure if that includes > Flatpak versions... > > See below relevant snippets... > > To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at least > Gtk+ 3.24, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.54, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.7.0, cmake 3.10 > and SWIG 2.0.12. Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources > for the exact list of dependencies and versions. > GnuCash is also available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for > installing and running may be found at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak. > If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 4.12 for yourself, the source > code can be downloaded from: > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.12/gnucash-docs-4.12.tar.gz > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.12/gnucash-docs-4.12.tar.gz > > The documentation is included in the MacOS and Windows application bundles. > Hope this helps, > > Regards David H. > > > On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 at 08:41, Tommy Trussell <tommy.truss...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. 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