* don fisher <hdf3@comcast.net> [04-29-18 16:38]:
On 04/29/2018 12:56 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 11:54:46 -0700 don fisher <hdf3@comcast.net> wrote:
On 04/28/2018 08:58 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
don fisher composed on 2018-04-28 20:45 (UTC-0700):
Patrick Shanahan wrote: >don fisher composed: >>I am unable to get the F1 key to generate anything except a >>"not installed >on your computer" message. I cannot find either under Yast or >Google where to get the appropriate package to add the help >files. Sorry. I am running LibreOffice 6.03.02 X86_64 under leap 42.3.
I'm still running 5.4.5.1 because this 6.0 upgrade seems like it wasn't thought through properly.
In my case the dialog box is quite explicit. it says:
"The LibreOffice built-in help is not installed on your computer.
"You may either install it from our website or your system’s repositories, or read an online version."
There's no LO help in the standard openSUSE repositories AFAIK and I haven't looked at other oS repositories so sometime ago I installed the help from the LO site and it worked. It no longer does, so I suppose some careless openSUSE update has broken it.
It's in usr/lib64/libreoffice/help/ in my case.
LO help has been chaotic for quite a while. I understand it's the difficulty of maintaining help that is accurate with a continually updating code base, then exacerbated by openSUSE's packaging policies.
Fortunately I don't usually try to do anything ambitious with the program any longer, so I'm not often looking for help.
I assumed that when I received an error message stating that, whatever F1 was looking for is "not installed on your computer", that something might be missing. There is also an empty /usr/share/LibreOffice/help directory. That directory is empty here for LO6 on 42.3 too, while /usr/lib64/libreoffice/help/ is not empty. LibreOffice Writer here also announces built-in help is not installed. I also have a non empty /usr/lib64/libreoffice/help/, but there is nothing below the sub directories: tree /usr/lib64/libreoffice/help/en-US/
I have that too.
My /usr/share/libreofffice directory looks like:
There's nothing there on my machine.
I am a bit curious about capitalization of libreoffice. Some posters have listed it as Libreoffice, other as libreoffice. Mine is definitely lower case. What is going on here?
Mine's all lower case. I don't know what's with the upper case or the mis-spelling in previous posts by one poster.
I tried to be a bit ambitious and downloaded the help file by clicking on the "libreoffice built in help" tab: download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.0.3/rpm/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.0.3_Linux_x86-64_rpm_helppack_en-US.tar.gz which yielded an rpm: libobasis6.0-en-US-help-6.0.3.2-2.x86_64.rpm which I tried to install via: sudo zypper install libobasis6.0-en-US-help-6.0.3.2-2.x86_64.rpm.
I received an error message: Problem: nothing provides libobasis6.0-en-US >= 6.0.3.2 needed by libobasis6.0-en-US help-6.0.3.2-2.x86_64
I have libreoffice-base 6.0.3.2-18.1 installed. The version numbers are so close that I assume libobasis6.0-en-US is equivalent to libreoffice-base. I also tried the recently suggested sudo zypper -v in --force libreoffice-l10n-en which appeared to succeed but the directories in both /usr.share/libreoffice and /usr/lib64/libreoffice/help are still empty.
And application still fails to function.
I forgot how to display what file are in an RPM file. Help would be appreciated.
don't belive the above process will accomplish what you want, but... rpm --help rpm -ql <file.rpm> will display the files withing the rpm -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org