Bug 52340 - Help system not working
Summary: Help system not working
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: kdevelop
Classification: Applications
Component: kdevelop 2.x (obsolete) (show other bugs)
Version: 2.1
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KDevelop-Devel List
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Reported: 2002-12-27 08:31 UTC by Gib Bogle
Modified: 2003-05-10 03:41 UTC (History)
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Description Gib Bogle 2002-12-27 08:31:08 UTC
Version:           2.1 (using KDE 2.2.2)
Installed from:    Debian Package 4:2.2.2-13 (3.0)
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.18

Not exactly a bug, but a problem anyway.  Although the 
setup program says that I have the correct paths to the 
Kdevelop and Qt docs, the only part of the help system 
that works is the displaying of Qt man pages.

I just found (after a bit of Googling) the c_cpp_reference
tar file, and installed it.  But it is not found by
Kdevelop, and I don't see any place where I can tell
the setup program where to find these docs.

When I run Kdevelop Setup it tells me that the following 
paths have been set and are correct:

/usr/share/qt/doc/html/ (for Qt)
/usr/share/doc/kdelibs3-doc/html (for KDE)

Invoking Options > Kdevelop Setup, on the other hand, was
saying that the KDE docs were in a directory under
/home/gib/.kde/apps/..., which was actually empty.  Changing
this to the /usr/share/doc/.. path above had an effect
on the help.  Whereas before "Search for help on", for
example, KSocket, would do nothing at all, now it says 
"KSocket not found in the documentation".

I tried doing "Create Search Database" but this generated
a large number of errors: "Permission denied or non-
existent file".  I have checked that I have read
permission in both doc directories.

Where does one find help for setting up the help system?

thanks
Gib
Comment 1 Jens Dagerbo 2003-05-10 03:41:28 UTC
KDevelop-2 is no longer supported. No further bugfix releases are planned for 
the 2.x series. 
 
It may well be that Gideon has bugs in the documentation part, but those are 
coincidental with this report against 2.x. It's better to close this and make room 
for relevant reports (against 3.0). Closing.