Kmail documentation missing/inaccessible

[Tom Troughton]

Hi,

Installed 14.04 clean off a usb, but the kmail documentation is inaccessible with this message:

edit - i'd love to show you the message, but the forum software won't let me. See next post.

[Tom Troughton]

Here's the error message:

> Could not find filename intro.html in file:///usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en//kmail/intro.html.

Noticed the 3 and 2 slashes - perhaps this is the problem. There is no intro.html there, but there is a intro.docbook. How do I fix this path? Thanks!

[Snowhog]

Have you rebooted since the installation from the USB?

[Tom Troughton]

Yes, I've been using the system for a couple of weeks.

[Snowhog]

What keyboard layout are you using:

K Menu > System Settings > Input Devices > Keyboard > Keyboard model

and

K Menu > System Settings > Input Devices > Keyboard > Layouts > Configure layouts

[Tom Troughton]

Generic 101-key PC keyboard English (US).

Also, can't find documentation to download with apt search, or explanantion for getting online documentation onto my system.

[Snowhog]

Your newly installed system 'might' not be fully updated. Open a console and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[Tom Troughton]

No joy.

Thanks for taking the time to make these suggestions.

[jlittle]

Noticed the 3 and 2 slashes - perhaps this is the problem

In general, unix paths may have extra slashes; f.ex. "//x//y//z" means the same as "/x/y/z".

Regards, John Little

[Tom Troughton]

Good to know - thank you. Found out the first two slashes separate the file protocol from the path, which begins with root (/). The two slashes further in the path make no difference as you said.

So I fixed it. The problem is that the link in Khelpcenter points to intro.html, while the title of the file 'index.cache' in inde.cache.bz2 was index.html. I extracted and edited the cache file, recompressed it, and copied it back to the location. Seems to all be working. Still a pain to try and run dolphin as root.