Also in Help -> Kile Handbook Link goes to page saying "The branch stable5 is not available for the specified application/language."
1) kile master build from sources File -> Statistics -> Help: corresponding handbook section in KHelpcenter opened Help -> Kile Handbook: Kile handbook in KHelpcenter opened 2) Ubuntu 19.04 disco File -> Statistics -> Help: corresponding handbook section in KHelpcenter opened Help -> Kile Handbook: Kile handbook in KHelpcenter opened 3) Neon up to date with kile 2.9.92 With package kile-doc installed File -> Statistics -> Help: corresponding handbook section in KHelpcenter opened Help -> Kile Handbook: Kile handbook in KHelpcenter opened Without package kile-doc File -> Statistics -> Help: KHelpcenter with page "Documentation not found" opened Help -> Kile Handbook: KHelpcenter with page "Documentation not found" opened The error you describe is not repruducible for me. Do you have the Kile documentation and KHelpcenter installed? Run "ls /usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kile/index.docbook" in a konsole and report the output please.
I don't have KHelpcenter installed. File -> Statistics -> Help takes me to this page: https://docs.kde.org/index.php?branch=stable5&language=en_US&application=kile&path=/kile/statistics.html $ ls -l /usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kile/index.docbook -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196141 Oct 20 14:19 /usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kile/index.docbook With KHelpcenter installed it takes me to the right page in KHelpcenter.
Having "/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kile/index.docbook" installed, but not the application KHelpcenter to display the content looks like a packaging bug to me. In frameworks/kguiaddons/src/util/urlhandler.cpp:49 the url to the handbook on docs.kde is constructed with branch "stable5" in the url, if the application KHelpcenter is not available on the system. See https://cgit.kde.org/kguiaddons.git/commit/src/util/urlhandler.cpp?id=c61b3a8acfd013e50219e62da68f300ab43acfaf Unfortunately Kile has no stable5 branch, only a trunk5 + trunk4 branch on docs.kde.org. With the wrong url for Kile you get the error you reported in comment #1 This will happen as well for all frameworks documentation + KStars, LabPlot, GCompris Administration, KPhotoAlbum, Showfoto, KGraphViewer, digiKam, Skanlite, KDevelop, Amarok, Kaffeine, rekonq, Choqok, Skrooge, KSig, Trojita, KTimeTracker, ring-kde, Partition Manager, KPager, kdesrc-build Script, RSIBreak, KEuroCalc because they only have a trunk5 branch on docs.kde.org. Same for some apps like KMid and others with only a trunk4 branch. @cfeck: Looks like a bug in kguiaddons and should be moved there, right?
Regarding packaging, I did not install my distro's meta package with all the kde applications, instead I installed the ones I wanted individually. Probably not really a bug.
Probably. Let's move it.