Documentation missing from Qt4 assistant

[Lars Noodén]

Binary package hint: qt4-dev-tools

When running the program 'assistant', the error messages below pop up and then the assistant itself says "The page could not be found"

A work around is to manually transfer (with tar) the doc/html directory from the q4 source directory.

"Documentation file /usr/shar/qt4/doc/html/assistant.dcf does not exist!
Skipping file."

"Documentation file /usr/shar/qt4/doc/html/designer.dcf does not exist!
Skipping file."

"Documentation file /usr/shar/qt4/doc/html/qt.dcf does not exist!
Skipping file."

"Documentation file /usr/shar/qt4/doc/html/qmake.dcf does not exist!
Skipping file."

$ apt-cache showpkg qt4-dev-tools
Package: qt4-dev-tools
Versions:
4.3.4-0ubuntu3 (/var/lib/apt/lists/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: dd1f17262c7f2d3b3fb07beb779a9a74

Reverse Depends:
  qdevelop,qt4-dev-tools
  qt4-doc,qt4-dev-tools
  qt4-designer,qt4-dev-tools 4.0.1-2
  libqt4-dev,qt4-dev-tools
Dependencies:
4.3.4-0ubuntu3 - libaudio2 (0 (null)) libc6 (2 2.4) libdbus-1-3 (2 1.1.1) libfontconfig1 (2 2.4.0) libfreetype6 (2 2.3.5) libgcc1 (0 (null)) libglib2.0-0 (0 (null)) libice6 (2 1:1.0.0) libpng12-0 (2 1.2.13-4) libqt4-core (5 4.3.4-0ubuntu3) libqt4-gui (5 4.3.4-0ubuntu3) libsm6 (0 (null)) libstdc++6 (2 4.1.1-21) libx11-6 (0 (null)) libxcursor1 (4 1.1.2) libxext6 (0 (null)) libxfixes3 (2 1:4.0.1) libxi6 (0 (null)) libxinerama1 (0 (null)) libxrandr2 (2 2:1.2.0) libxrender1 (0 (null)) libxt6 (0 (null)) zlib1g (2 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1) libqt4-dev (0 (null)) qt4-designer (0 (null)) qt4-doc (0 (null)) qdbusviewer (0 (null)) qt3-assistant (1 3:3.3.4-7) qt3-designer (1 3:3.3.4-7) qt3-linguist (1 3:3.3.4-7)
Provides:
4.3.4-0ubuntu3 -
Reverse Provides:

Linux macbook 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -rc
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

The culprit might be the program cp failing to copy all at once the 3750 files found in doc/html ( I got an error yesterday, but not today when trying a wildcard copy of the files.) Or the package tool that fails to stop on such
an error.

[luisgarrido (luisgarrido)]

The problem is one of packaging.

assistant is provided by qt4-dev-tools

The docs are provided by qt4-doc

qt4-dev-tools doesn't depend on qt4-doc, so it is not pulled along from the repo.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

qt4-dev-tools now recommends qt4-doc, so it will be pulled in by default if one tries to install it. It probably won't be made a depends since the package is somewhat large and isn't required for most of qt4-dev-tools. (That way you can install qt4-dev-tools with --no-install-recommends to not install the docs in the first place, or remove them afterwards without removing qt4-dev-tools)

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

Thanks. It's fine that the docs are in a separate package. Will the 'assistant' from qt4-dev-tools then work without the above errors?