Help is unaccessible in Gnumeric

[Ansus]

Binary package hint: gnumeric

When triing to display help from Gnumeric, it simply reports an error that the URL is incorrect.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I've confirmed this using the following package -

gnumeric:
  Installed: 1.8.3-3ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.8.3-3ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.3-3ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ubuntu.osuosl.org intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The actual message received is:

The requested URI "ghelp:gnumeric" is invalid

[Hib Eris (hiberis)]

When you install gnumeric from Applications - Add/Remove Software with app-install, the documentation package gnumeric-doc is not installed automatically. When you install this documentation package with Synaptic Package Manager or some other way, the help files (manual) will be found from the gnumeric program.

Suggestion for fixing this:

1. app-install should automatically install gnumeric-doc when you install gnumeric.
2. if gnumeric-doc is not installed, gnumeric should report this in it's error message and suggest to install it, possibly with an easy way to do this.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Jaunty still does not install help for gnumeric. This is on an installation from jaunty-desktop-i386.iso dated 01-20-2009.