Gnumeric: no help

[Paul Smith]

On 5/20/06, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net> wrote:
> >> > I have just installed Gnumeric with yum, but when I try to access
> >> to
> >> > the help (by pressing key F1), I get the error:
> >> >
> >> > "Could not load the document
> >> >
> >> > The Uniform Resource Identifier
> >> > 'file:///usr/share/gnumeric/1.6.3/doc/C/gnumeric.xml' is invalid or
> >> > does not point to an actual file.'
> >> >
> >> > Furthermore,
> >> >
> >> > $ dir /usr/share/gnumeric/1.6.3/doc/C/gnumeric.xml
> >> > dir: /usr/share/gnumeric/1.6.3/doc/C/gnumeric.xml: No such file or
> >> > directory
> >> > $
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Try following the links: Applications->Office->The Gnumeric Manual,
> >> version 1.4.
> >
> > Thanks, Geoffrey, but cannot follow those links, as I am running KDE
> > and not GNOME.
>
> Hmmm ... well, I guess that there's no help for you :-)

I hope not!... :-)

The problem is identified:

$ locate gnumeric.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/gnumeric/C/gnumeric.xml
$

and gnumeric looks for

/usr/share/gnumeric/1.6.3/doc/C/gnumeric.xml

A bug of the packager?

Paul