[SOLVED] Help get Gimp User Manuals onto Slackwar64-13.1

NightSky · 10-02-2011, 12:46 AM

Hello,
How do download Gimp Manual to Slackware64-13.1? I don't always have an internet connection and would like to download the user manual. Installed Gimp2.6.8 in Xfce4.6.1

When I click help in gimp the following appear:
Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not supported

Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS? Yes i am googling this and went to #gimp-users because the above link won't load with firefox 3.6.22 directly. What am I missing? Thank you

ljb643 · 10-02-2011, 10:36 AM

You can download the Gimp help manual from gimp.org downloads area (except it doesn't seem to be up at the moment, and the mirrors list says it got an error). Unpack it right into /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help so that the paths look like help/en/(lots of *.html files). Or, you can unpack it somewhere else and make a link from /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help to the top of the unpacked directory.

Then, go into Gimp preferences, Help System tab. Set "User manual:" to "Use a locally installed copy". Set Help Browser to use: = Web browser. Set Web Browser to use: = e.g. "seamonkey %s" or "firefox %s".

Now using Help in Gimp should open a browser window to the local help files.

NightSky · 10-02-2011, 07:28 PM

Thanks lbj63, that link at gimp.org from downloads to Eng Gimp Manual is not working.

ljb643 · 10-02-2011, 08:52 PM

Yes, as I said. The main download site (seems to be hosted at graft.XCF.berkely.edu) is down. There are mirrors, but for some reason the list of mirrors will not display either. Hopefully this is a temporary situation, perhaps a weekend failure. Try again Monday, perhaps.

NightSky · 10-03-2011, 09:45 PM

ljb643,
not just a weekend problem.. been trying for over a week. Found this:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...soft/gimp.html

There is an ftp link for Help System... Now my question is do I create a help folder in /usr/share/gimp/2.0 and then unpack the download?
Download Links:
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/gimp-2.6.8.tar.bz2

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/gimp-2.6.8.tar.bz2

* Are these downloads source code? Do I have to build a slackware pkg.?

Questions:
Does it matter download is tar.bz2?

Do i need special steps to install help files because I am running slackware64 multilib?

Do .xml files open in firefox... was looking through gimprc to figure out how to bring up help files as html using firefox and found alot of .xml stuff.

How do you handle .xml files?

Other day downloaded a pdf gimp guide firefox said it was downloading to tmp.. but i can't find it anywhere now?? Like to delete it. Thank you

saulgoode · 10-04-2011, 08:03 AM

You can build a Slackware package from the source in the GIT repository without much difficulty.

Code:

git clone git://git.gnome.org/gimp-help-2
cd gimp-help-2/
./autogen.sh
ALL_LINGUAS=en ./configure --disable-maintainer-mode
make
mkdir /tmp/package-gimp-help-2
DESTDIR=/tmp/package-gimp-help-2 make install

Now log in as root and build your package:

Code:

cd /tmp/package-gimp-help-2
makepkg -c y -l y ../gimp-help-2-2.6-noarch-1_git.txz
installpkg ../gimp-help-2-2.6-noarch-1_git.txz

Change the ALL_LINGUAS variable to add any languages you want.

ljb643 · 10-04-2011, 04:42 PM

I was able to locate one of the US gimp mirrors. (Bad of them to have their main download site down, their mirrors list unavailable, and the same site serves their mailing lists.)
http://gimp.mirrors.hoobly.com/gimp/
I think this is a legit, up-to-date mirror of the gimp.org downloads, but if you download software from a mirror you should verify the checksums from gimp.org.

The downloads you listed above are source code, not help files. The linuxfromscratch stuff you found does not seem to be the actual Gimp help files, so that won't help here. Either get the help download from the mirror I found, or you can follow saulgoode's steps to build the help system yourself. What you are looking for will unpack into HTML files; if you got XML files you have the wrong thing.

NightSky · 10-04-2011, 09:43 PM

Thank you so much for all your help and patience. Download the manual from your link.
unpacked download in /home/xxx/downloads

$tar xvjf package.tar.bz2
#mkdir /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help
#cd /home/xxx/downloads/gimp-help-2
#cp -R html/en /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help
#cp gimp-help-2.6.1-html-en.tar.bz2 /usr/local/include
Then followed the rest of your instructions... its all working great!