On 2018-05-08 13:52, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> [05-08-18 02:11]:
On 08/05/18 14:30, David C. Rankin wrote:
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. This is somewhat a bad joke, LO stripped all local help files leaving nothing but an index which is supposed to link to the LO website where all the help files should be stored, but the move from the installed help to the website has not been completed by LO, leaving your with a hit-or-miss as to whether
On 04/29/2018 02:56 PM, Dave Howorth wrote: there is any help file in either place.
This isn't new and started the better part of a year ago. I wrote a bug on it with LO and that was the answer at the time. So you have not very helpful help regardless of what you have installed.
The upside is that at least the online-help is getting better -- but you are SOL if you don't have an internet connection when you need help.. (progress)
What you just wrote reminds me of the thinking behind the information given to people when they are about to Download a copy of Tumbleweed or Leap 42.3 or Leap 15.0 Beta (for 42.3, for example, here:
https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/leap )
where one of the Recommended System Requirements is
<quote>
Internet access is helpful, and required for the Network Installer
</unquote>
However, there are no hints given on how to download the system without using the internet :-).
And, yes, there is also the other very obvious question... :-).
it is a *wiki* and you can make appropriate edits. someone else will step up and make adjustments to your edits if they don't formate correctly. do your thing.
It is *not* a wiki. However, the sentence in question is correct. Generally "Internet access is helpful" for all the installs, but obviously in the case of the network installer it is "required". Which is not totally true, it can install from a server on the LAN. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)