yelp not available/installed/working gnumeric

[emgee_1]

Hi Salixers,

in gnumeric asking for help
yields

Unable to start the help browser (yelp).
The system error message is:

Failed to execute child process "yelp" (No such file or directory)

I remember also some other package having this problem.

Regards

marcel

[gapan]

Yes, you need yelp to open that help files. And I personally have no intention of making a yelp package. It's ugly, it only works with xulrunner, it needs serious patching to work with webkit and my CPU goes up to a constant 100% when it is launched. Better not have it at all. If you still want it, try the gsb project.

[zAchAry]

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http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/gsb/gsb-2.30_slackware-13.1/gsb/ap/yelp-2.30.1-i486-1gsb.txz
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/gsb/gsb-2.30_slackware-13.1/gsb/ap/

Side note: I do wonder why it is so complicated? does GNOME want to force it as a new standard?
I mean, otherwise, if they didn't then they probably would have done that with HTML just like Xfce Liferea and many others (or CHM).

[jd63]

I know this is an old thread, but I'm trying to install yelp for gnumeric and get the following errors:

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sudo spi -i yelp
.
.
/usr/bin/grep: /usr/lib/libsecret-1.la: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libsecret-1.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libsecret-1.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[3]: *** [libyelp.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/slapt-src/system/yelp/yelp-3.12.0/libyelp'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/slapt-src/system/yelp/yelp-3.12.0/libyelp'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/slapt-src/system/yelp/yelp-3.12.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2
fakeroot -- sh yelp.SlackBuild Failed

Any suggestions? Thanks.

[djemos]

For 32 bit salix flavors
install webkitgtk3, linuxdoc-tools, itstool, yelp-xsl

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sudo slapt-get -i webkitgtk3 linuxdoc-tools itstool yelp-xsl

1. Download and install this rebuilded libsecret package (for 64 bit build it yourself with fakeroot slkbuild -X)
2. Download and install yelp (for 64 bit build it youself with fakeroot slkbuild -X)
3. execute

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sudo update-all

Run gnumeric

[jd63]

Thanks djemos, it's all good now. No problem with CPU hogging either.

[jd63]

Something weird is happening since I installed yelp; I'm now getting constant updates for the libsecret package, even though both are already installed:

Packages to be upgraded
libsecret(0.15-i486-ldj) -> 0.15-i486-l