[kde-linux] Trying to build a Help Search Index in KDE

[Bogus Zaba]

Drachen wrote:
> Donatas G. wrote:
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>>> Gary L. Greene Jr. wrote:
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>>>> On Saturday 26 August 2006 23:22, Drachen Birch wrote:
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>>>>> Hello.
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>>>>>    I have an ancient, 500 MHz Compaq running Slackware 10.2, and KDE
>>>>> 3.4.2 (bundled with the Slack distro).  When I press the button to build
>>>>> a Help search index so that the KDE Help can actually help, I get this
>>>>> message:
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>>>>>    INDEXDIR: /home/drak/.kde/share/apps/khelpcenter/index/
>>>>> FINDCMD: find /opt/kde/share/doc/HTML/en/ -name index.docbook
>>>>> Creating index for 'kde_application_manuals'
>>>>> htdig failed
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>> Whichever distro you choose, the index thing in KHelpCenter won't work,
>> since it is broken for a long time already. If you care about it, try to
>> locate the appropriate bug report at bugs.kde.org and vote for it.
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>> But, as with many things in Open Source world, this might not really
>> change situation: perhaps the developer, who created KHelpCenter is no
>> longer active, or something, and nobody is paying money to get things
>> useful for the end user fixed.
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>> Donatas
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> To Donatas G.,
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>      Thank you!  You have saved me from wasting an immense amount of 
> time.  I might otherwise have tried to load distro after distro, looking 
> for the one where the Help Center worked.
>      Well.  I guess we can hope that someone who knows a lot more than 
> me will take the project up again, but for now I guess I'll have to 
> learn to use man pages exclusively.  Too bad that so many man pages are 
> poorly written and un-helpful.
>      Anyway, thanks again!
>                                                          -Drak
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When I had a brand new Suse 9.2 Linux delivered with whatever KDE came 
with it, the HelpCentre (including search functionality) worked fine. 
After a year or so I upgraded the KDE to a higher version and the search 
stopped working. However I tried to re-build indexes, whatever advice I 
got off the lists, nothing helped. I have now installed a brand new Suse 
10.1 with KDE3.5.1 and it works fine again. Conclusion - it is not 
irretrievably broken, but something (directories and symlinks?) has to 
be exactly right. I'm afraid I am no nearer knowing what that something 
is...

Bogus