Comment 0 for bug 241916

Binary package hint: kdebase

kdebase 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7

When building the Search Index inside KHelpCenter, it falsely reports success even though it fails.

The cause of the failure is that docbookparser isn't compatible with dash. When its run using dash instead of bash, it produces errors such as

/home/mugginz/.kde/share/apps/khelpcenter/index//kde_application_manuals.tmp/docbookparser: 11: Bad substitution

The Fix.
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The following file
        "~/.kde/share/apps/khelpcenter/index/kde_application_manuals.tmp/docbookparser"
is where the 'Bad substitution' errors come from.

It needs line 1 changed from
#! /bin/sh
    to
#! /bin/bash

The above file 'docbookparser' is created from inside the following python script
        "/usr/bin/khc_docbookdig.pl"

The source for the python script is
        "kdebase-3.5.9/khelpcenter/searchhandlers/khc_docbookdig.pl.in"

So if we change line 127 of khc_docbookdig.pl.in from
 #! /bin/sh
to
        #! /bin/bash
the prob is fixed.

Also related to:
   Bug #19767 in kdebase (Ubuntu) - htdig should be a dependecy of the base kde packages.