willy1946
January 3rd, 2009, 10:16 PM
Hi guys.
I have a completely updated copy if Ubuntu Intrepid which works very well except for one minor prob. When I start the installed Gimp 2.6.1 and select Help->Help, it fails with a pop-up window showing
The Gimp help browser is not available.
The GIMP help browser plug-in appears to be missing from your installation. You may instead use the web browser for reading the help pages
While the web browser option does work, I would prefer to use the local help if possible. I searched the forums but could not find anything related to this other than a reference to a package called gimp-helpbrowser. I looked in Synaptic and no such package is listed. I then made the following query using aptitude from the terminal:
bill@Desktop:~$ aptitude search gimp | grep ^[iv]
i gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
i gimp-data - Data files for GIMP
v gimp-help -
i gimp-help-common - Data files for the GIMP documentation
i gimp-help-en - Documentation for the GIMP (English)
v gimp-helpbrowser -
v gimp-python -
i libgimp2.0 - Libraries for the GNU Image Manipulation P
gimp-helpbrowser along with gimp-help and gimp-python are listed as virtual packages. None will install directly.
An 'aptitude why-not' query against each results in the following:
bill@Desktop:~$ aptitude why-not gimp-python
Segmentation fault
bill@Desktop:~$ aptitude why-not gimp-helpbrowser
i gimp Conflicts gimp-helpbrowser
bill@Desktop:~$ aptitude why-not gimp-help
Segmentation fault
A reinstall of Gimp failed to correct the problem.
Has anyone out there had the same prob and managed to fix it??
I have a completely updated copy if Ubuntu Intrepid which works very well except for one minor prob. When I start the installed Gimp 2.6.1 and select Help->Help, it fails with a pop-up window showing
The Gimp help browser is not available.
The GIMP help browser plug-in appears to be missing from your installation. You may instead use the web browser for reading the help pages
While the web browser option does work, I would prefer to use the local help if possible. I searched the forums but could not find anything related to this other than a reference to a package called gimp-helpbrowser. I looked in Synaptic and no such package is listed. I then made the following query using aptitude from the terminal:
bill@Desktop:~$ aptitude search gimp | grep ^[iv]
i gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
i gimp-data - Data files for GIMP
v gimp-help -
i gimp-help-common - Data files for the GIMP documentation
i gimp-help-en - Documentation for the GIMP (English)
v gimp-helpbrowser -
v gimp-python -
i libgimp2.0 - Libraries for the GNU Image Manipulation P
gimp-helpbrowser along with gimp-help and gimp-python are listed as virtual packages. None will install directly.
An 'aptitude why-not' query against each results in the following:
bill@Desktop:~$ aptitude why-not gimp-python
Segmentation fault
bill@Desktop:~$ aptitude why-not gimp-helpbrowser
i gimp Conflicts gimp-helpbrowser
bill@Desktop:~$ aptitude why-not gimp-help
Segmentation fault
A reinstall of Gimp failed to correct the problem.
Has anyone out there had the same prob and managed to fix it??