Installing KDE help files et al

[pwabrahams]

When I bring up Help, I only see Unix manual pages in the search pane. I tried to use Build Search Index to build an index for the KDE utilities, but apparently the database for searching application manuals is missing, and I don't know what it's called.

How can I get a complete repertoire of search indices for Help?

[goforthis]

Re: Installing KDE help files et al

Do you have kdehelpcenter istalled (it is in the repos) if not this should help

[pwabrahams]

Re: Installing KDE help files et al

Indeed, kdehelpcenter is not installed. But how can I locate it in the repos? I tried

sudo apt-get install kdehelpcenter

and it couldn't find anything.

[Rog131]

Re: Installing KDE help files et al

khelpcenter - help center for KDE

help center for KDE
The KDE Help Center provides documentation on how to use the KDE desktop.

This package is part of KDE, and a component of the KDE base module.
See the 'kde' and 'kdebase' packages for more information.

I don't know why it isn't kdehelpcenter

[pwabrahams]

Installing KDE and info help files

khelpcenter is indeed installed. But a search for kde apps, e.g., digicam, comes up with just this:

Search Results for 'digicam':
Top-Level Documentation
UNIX manual pages

Also, I'd like to be able to include info-based documentation for apps such as grub and emacs in the help system and I don't know how to do that either. Also, if I enter the help system and go to "build search index", all I see is "Application Manuals", and clicking on "build Index" doesn't change that.

[Rog131]

Re: Installing KDE help files et al

khelpcenter is indeed installed. But a search for kde apps, e.g., digicam, comes up with just this:

If you mean digikam then maybe:
Dapper (2 packages):
Package digikam
Package digikamimageplugins

But in Feisty (4 packages):
Package digikam
Package digikamimageplugins
Package digikam-doc

Handbook for digikam and showfoto in several languages

Package digikamimageplugins-doc

Handbook for digikam image editor plugins in several languages

Also, I'd like to be able to include info-based documentation for apps such as grub and emacs in the help system and I don't know how to do that either

They have man pages.
In the konsole:

man <name>

Example:

:~$ man man

MAN(1)            Manual pager utils            MAN(1)

NAME
    man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals

SYNOPSIS
    man [-c|-w|-tZ] [-H[browser]] [-T[device]] [-adhu7V] [-i|-I] [-m sys‐
    tem[,...]] [-L locale] [-p string]....

You also can use konqueror: enter man:<name> in the URL line.

[pwabrahams]

Re: Installing KDE help files et al

Digikam was just an example -- I know how to get its docs independent of the help system. What I'm looking for is a way to include all KDE apps in the search system of kdehelp so that I can search for them just as I would search for a Unix app.

[larensi]

Re: Installing KDE help files et al

I am also not able to use my KDE help files. I was using the application documentation off the CDROM, but once I installed Kubuntu they were no longer indexed. I found htdig.desktop using Konqueror, but the file has not been given a type. What do I need to do to link everything together?

larens

[Snowhog]

Re: Installing KDE help files et al

In Adept Manager, install the htdig package. You will then be able to build indexes of the Application Manuals and UNIX Manuals in KDE. Just installed it and tried it out. It works.

[larensi]

Re: Installing KDE help files et al

I am able to find the htdig file with Konqueror and with
"Find Files/Folders", where it is called "Desktop Config File".
I have not been able, however, to find it with the Adept
Manager Search. What do I need to do to find it and
install it with Adept Manager?

larens

[pwabrahams]

htdig and Build Index are not enough

I've installed htdig and danced the "Build Index" quadrille. Now when I do a help search for k3b I get the following cryptic runes:

Search Results for 'k3b':
Top-Level Documentation

Application Manuals
khc_htsearch.pl --docbook --indexdir=/home/pwa/.kde/share/apps/khelpcenter/index/ --config=kde_application_manuals --words=k3b --method=and --maxnum=5 --lang=en

UNIX manual pages
k3b - KDE CD burning program

So where do I go from here?

[pwabrahams]

&quot;Build Index&quot; errors

It's probably relevant that I get these errors when I do the build-index operation:

/home/pwa/.kde/share/apps/khelpcenter/index//kde_application_manuals.tmp/docbookparser: 9: Syntax error: Bad substitution
2:14:1:help://kcontrol/arts/index.docbook: size = 7221
/home/pwa/.kde/share/apps/khelpcenter/index//kde_application_manuals.tmp/docbookparser: 9: Syntax error: Bad substitution
3:59:1:help://kcontrol/index.docbook: size = 17019
/home/pwa/.kde/share/apps/khelpcenter/index//kde_application_manuals.tmp/docbookparser: 9: Syntax error: Bad substitution
4:58:1:help://kcontrol/windowmanagement/index.docbook: size = 2104

(and more of the same)