Bug 102912

Summary: khelpcenter - how to enable fulltext search?
Product: [Applications] khelpcenter Reporter: Ruben Jenster <rjenster>
Component: generalAssignee: Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: amitds, ana, apaku, sitter, sunnysachanandani
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Build Search Index
khelpcenter output with htdig3.2.0b6

Description Ruben Jenster 2005-03-31 09:03:41 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc-3.4.3 
OS:                Linux

I want fulltext search in khelpcenter, but I do not succed in enabling it.
I have installed htdig which is needed for this and successfully build the index
but anyhow the fulltext search is not available. I searched the whole gentoo forum
and kde mailinglist but every task concerning this problem was yes unanswered.

I have attached the window that shows the Build Search Indices of the KDE Help Center. Hope you could help me - I really need that fulltext search!!

Regards 

Ruben
Comment 1 Ruben Jenster 2005-03-31 09:05:20 UTC 
Created attachment 10448 [details]
Build Search Index

This screenshot shows the Build Search Indices Window of the KDE Help Center
Comment 2 Ruben Jenster 2005-04-24 19:09:43 UTC 
No hint how to fix this problem?
This is a really annoying bug.
Seems to me that fulltext search has never worked reliable.

Regards 

Ruben
Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2005-04-24 19:15:52 UTC 
possibly you need newer htdig version
Comment 4 Andreas Pakulat 2005-06-13 17:26:02 UTC 
Hi,

I'm having the same problem on Debian, using experimental KDE3.4.1 packages. 

So do I need htdig3.2 for the search to work? As htdig 3.1.6b doesn't work.

Also note, that the indexing tries to connect to home:80, which is IMHO complete nonsense. 

I'm going to try compiling htdig 3.2 and report...

Andreas
Comment 5 Andreas Pakulat 2005-06-13 18:27:37 UTC 
Hi,

I found a deb for htdig3.2b6 and tried to use that. At least there are a lot more errors now (I'll create an attachment). 

After index creation I searched for kate (which doesn't have a host not found line) and the result was nothing. 

Andreas
Comment 6 Andreas Pakulat 2005-06-13 18:29:27 UTC 
Created attachment 11431 [details]
khelpcenter output with htdig3.2.0b6

This is the detailed output of indexing with khelpcenter and htdig.
Comment 7 Ruben Jenster 2005-09-09 20:18:40 UTC 
I do have exactly the same output with htdig 3.2b6 on gentoo.

As this is a known problem with several distributions this should definitly be fixed.

A helpcenter that does not work is useless.


Ruben
Comment 8 tmbeck 2006-01-17 04:08:38 UTC 
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 9 yzhh 2006-01-18 07:55:39 UTC 
I am using debian/unstable and installed htdig. The khelpcenter output for creating app-handbook index is similar with that of comment #6 but shorter, also ends with the word "successful". Using the result index in khelpcenter finds nothing. However the default index directory, ~/.kde/share/apps/khelpcenter/index/, do contain some generated files.
Comment 10 koolniczka 2006-02-21 19:21:32 UTC 
reported similar situation as bug #122437 for 3.5.1
Comment 11 Philip Rodrigues 2007-02-07 22:25:43 UTC 
*** Bug 141105 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Björn 'Fuchs' Krombholz 2008-03-05 00:41:19 UTC 
FYI, i had this problem, but it's gone since a few versions in Debian (current is 3.5.9), so this one is resolved for me (and could probably be closed?).
Comment 13 Harald Sitter 2008-08-18 10:47:34 UTC 
No objections it seems, I am closing the report.

Thank you.