Quarry help does not find a web-browser

[Leonard Michlmayr]

Binary package hint: quarry

After playing go, I tried to look up the help from the menu Help->Contents.
An error message pops up saying:
"Failed to execute child process "mozilla" (No such file or directory)

Neither Yelp nor Mozilla works. You may browse help with a different browser, see file `/usr/share/quarry/help/C/quarry.html'."

Yelp is installed, mozilla is not:
ii yelp 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
un mozilla

I'd expect quarry to use yelp, x-www-browser, or the gnome default browser.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: quarry 0.2.0.dfsg.1-2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
SourcePackage: quarry
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-3-generic x86_64

[Damir (damir-sultanbekov)]

Same problem. Ubuntu 10.10 (amd64)

[Damir (damir-sultanbekov)]

Made simple patch to fix this problem: replaced hardcoded use of mozilla binary with xdg-open call.

xdg-utils package must be added to package requirements

Also it would be good to add scrollkeeper (or rarian-compat) as build-time dependency, as without it docbook help is not built properly.

[Damir (damir-sultanbekov)]

Sorry... not experienced with all this diff/patch stuff

This version of patch should be correct (forgot -u option for diff)

[Ethan Baldridge (ethan-superiordocumentservices)]

Thanks for the bug report and patch! I just found out there were bugs for us tracked on here, and I didn't know about this one yet. I'll look over the patch and get it into the release for this week.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

This bug should be fixed in latest Quarry release - 0.3. I've created Ubuntu packages of latest Quarry release - 0.3.0.1, see:
https://code.launchpad.net/~baltix-members/+recipe/quarry-git
It would be nice to see Quarry 0.3 in Ubuntu :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.