cannot open help documents

[Lauri Watts]

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On Friday 08 November 2002 13.09, Nick THOMPSON wrote:
> On Monday 30 September 2002 13:01, Xia Shang wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I can't open the help documents. Whenever I try it, the system says:
> >
> > An error occured while loading
>
> help:/khelpcenter/index.html?anchor=welcome:
> > Could not start process
> > Unable to create io-slave:
> > klauncher said: Error loading "kio-help".
> >
> > What packates do I need?
> > Sincerely
>
> This happens to me as well. I do have libxml2 and libxslt installed. The
> problem seem to be that non of the html pages have been installed. I
> used the RedHat7.3 RPM packages on the KDE web page. It has installed
> loads of docbook files in /usr/share/doc/HTML/en, but no HTMLs were
> installed in there. Is there a way to create these post install?

There are never any .html files, they are cached up into the index.cache.bz2 
files.  Do you have bzip2 installed? (and bunzip2 if it's separate.)  You 
probably need libxml2 and libxslt as well, as a fallback in case the cached 
documents are not there either.

Are the docbook files installed in /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/<appname>/ or 
directly under the en/ - and if directly under, what are they called?

Do you have the binary "meinproc"? Does it run? If yes, can you run it on one 
of those docbook files?  

If you can run meinproc, do you get HTML pages output in the current 
directory? If not, do you get errors? Don't panic if you get hundreds of 
them, they usually boil down to the first couple of lines, but I'd like to 
see those first couple.

If you can't run meinproc, is that because it's not even there, or is it 
because it's broken (doesn't run)?

Can you tell me what $KDEDIR (and/or $KDEDIRS) is set to? 

Regards,
- -- 
Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/
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