I installed gimp, found something I didn't know how to do (not uncommon) & decided to look at the help.
The help menu says it was not installed, so I installed gimp-help-en and it selected gimp-help-common.
I restarted gimp, went to the help menu, and have this error message:
Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not supported
Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS?
I installed the package gvfs, and a a bunch it decided were dependencies, restarted gimp, but have the same error.
Having a look it seems that this error sometimes crops up when systems are upgraded (not what happened here).
I went to "edit/preferences/help" and said "use locally installed copy" of help, and now it works. Looking at it now, I guess I didn't need to install gvfs.
The question is, should installing the help packages not update the preferences so it actually uses them, or am I missing something?
The help menu says it was not installed, so I installed gimp-help-en and it selected gimp-help-common.
I restarted gimp, went to the help menu, and have this error message:
Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not supported
Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS?
I installed the package gvfs, and a a bunch it decided were dependencies, restarted gimp, but have the same error.
Having a look it seems that this error sometimes crops up when systems are upgraded (not what happened here).
I went to "edit/preferences/help" and said "use locally installed copy" of help, and now it works. Looking at it now, I guess I didn't need to install gvfs.
The question is, should installing the help packages not update the preferences so it actually uses them, or am I missing something?