On 05/05/10 02:26, Ken Hackbarth wrote:
"I hope this doesn't sound flippant, but all you have to do is to trust
your package manager."
Peter,
It is encouraging to hear that the update manager knows about and
installs prerequisites. I didn't get that impression the first time
that I tried to install Eric. I chose Eric from the programing tools
list and installed it. Everything proceeded just fine but when I
launched the program the help links to Qt and other supporting software
didn't work. I went to the options dialog and saw that the help links
to these applications wasn't populated. So I made the assumption that
they weren't installed in the proper order so Eric couldn't find them
and automatically create the links.
Thanks,
Ken
Hi Ken,
The Package maintainer either messed up on the help links, or
deliberately left them out. Now you've mentioned it, though, I see that
my installation is the same. However, Eric itself is installed just fine.
I noticed that when I clicked on Help --> qt4 Documentation, the error
message box said it couldn't find the index.html file. So I did a
locate on qt4 and discovered that no html help files seemed to be
installed for qt4. Checking in Synaptic, I find that they are installed
separately (search for qt4-doc-html).
After installing the docs, I find them in:
/usr/share/qt4/doc/html
Checking in the Eric Settings --> Help --> Help Documentation dialog, I
see that you need to give the location of the help files for Eric in
there. So I enter the path above into the appropriate text box, click
Apply and then OK to close the dialog.
Now when I click on Help --> qt4 Documentation, the help comes up
(albeit with a number of error messages because a SQLite driver or
something isn't installed). Despite the error messages it all seems to
be there and working. I imagine you would have to do the same for the
other help files.
HTH
Peter
http://www.peredur.net
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