I see what's happening there... That's due to snap's containerization
efforts, which blocks loading of files from /usr/share/scribus.  If you use
any other non-snap browser it should just work.


I don't use snaps, no, so I'm having no good ideas on how to fix that.  And
ISTR I had a good reason to have the symlinks that way instead of
installing in usr/share/doc amd symlinking on usr/share/scribus, but i
could always try again, as that's likely the easier workaround to those
blocks.


On Sat, 23 Mar 2024, 9:50 pm Ian Bruntlett, <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Hi Mattia,
>
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 at 20:30, Mattia Rizzolo <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > You are right that scribus needs them in what is the "wrong" location
> > for the Debian policy, but I remember doing things so that it would work
> > for both.
> >
> > The package ships everything in /usr/share/scribus/doc and then sets up
> > symlinks from e.g. /usr/share/doc/scribus/de to ../../scribus/doc/de
> > (i.e. /usr/share/scribus/doc/de).
> >
> > What is not working for you?
> >
>
> Well, Firefox (as a snap), for some reason or another, can't access the
> files.
>
> /usr/share/doc/scribus/en$ xdg-open index.html
> Yields this error page in Firefox:
>
>
>
>
> *File not foundFirefox can’t find the file at
> /usr/share/doc/scribus/en/index.html.    Check the file name for
> capitalisation or other typing errors.    Check to see if the file was
> moved, renamed or deleted.*
>
> /usr/share/scribus/doc/en$ xdg-open index.html
> Yields this error page in Firefox:
>
>
>
>
> *File not foundFirefox can’t find the file at
> /usr/share/scribus/doc/en/index.html.    Check the file name for
> capitalisation or other typing errors.    Check to see if the file was
> moved, renamed or deleted.*
> Is it possible that the snap system does not like the symlink approach?
>
> Do you have Firefox installed as a snap? Do you have scribus-doc installed?
> That way, you should be able to experience this problem, too.
>
> BW,
>
>
> Ian
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2058634
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> Title:
>   scribus-doc puts docs in wrong place
>
> Status in scribus-doc package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   the issue is that scribus does not use a standard location for
>   its docs ... typically deb packages ship their docs in
>   /usr/share/doc/<packagename> while scribus ships them in
>   /usr/share/<packagename>/doc ...
>
>   This is important because the Firefox snap only has permissions to
>   access files in the standard location.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
>   Package: scribus 1.5.8+dfsg-2
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-26.26~22.04.1-generic 6.5.13
>   Uname: Linux 6.5.0-26-generic x86_64
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
>   CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
>   Date: Thu Mar 21 10:32:17 2024
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-08-07 (1321 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64
> (20200731)
>   SourcePackage: scribus
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-08-15 (584 days ago)
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