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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000348 | FreeCAD | Bug | public | 2011-05-14 17:48 | 2011-05-15 14:53 |
| Reporter | normandc | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Product Version | trunk | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 0.12 | ||||
| Summary | 0000348: Help (F1) not working | ||||
| Description | The Help (F1 or Help > Help menu) is not working on Ubuntu. When calling it, nothing happens. I chose trunk as version, but I don't remember Help ever working for any version for the past year, on 3 different systems (Karmic, Lucid on two differents PCs, Maverick in a VM). That is for any version of FreeCAD either compiled, installed from Ubuntu repository, built or installed from the new freecad-daily PPA. Since the freecad-daily PPA for Lucid (and also the freecad package from Ubuntu repository) installs the following files: /usr/share/doc/freecad/freecad.qch (18.3MB) /usr/share/doc/freecad/freecad.qhc (17KB) I'm assuming something should happen when pressing F1. | ||||
| Additional Information | actual tested version: freecad_0.12-bzr4140~lucid1 on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS 64-bit | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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This is strange, for me everything works fine (help menu, F1 key and the "what's this" button). I think some part of Qt Assistant (the Qt help system) must be missing. I think it's part of the qt4-dev-tools package. Can you check if it works when you install that package? Maybe we should list it as a dependency then... |
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The qt4-dev-tools package is already installed... |
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But you are able to run qassistant? ("Assistant" from the terminal) |
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Yes, through the Programmation > Qt4 Assistant menu. But I just noticed that if I type assistant from the terminal, I get Qt3 Assistant instead. Since I have QCad, Qt3 libraries are installed on my system as well. I wonder if that's the problem. |
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I'll be... that was it! I uninstalled qt3-assistant and qt3-doc, which were required by qcad-doc, and now Help is working in FreeCAD. I uninstalled qcad as well, since I now use its fork LibreCAD, which was ported to Qt4. Still, I'm wondering if there's a way to call Qt4-assistant from within FreeCAD other than by the assistant command, to avoid conflicts when qt3-doc is also installed. Thanks a lot Yorik! I guess we can close this bug! |
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In my debian system assistant is a symlink to assistant-qt4... Probably it works the same on ubuntu. I suppose some uninstall/reinstalling you did did change that link. Probably dpkg-reconfiguring the right package would recreate the correct link, but i'm not sure which one. Anyway, I'll close the bug for now! (One bug less is always good to take ;) |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2011-05-14 17:48 | normandc | New Issue | |
| 2011-05-15 13:42 | yorik | Note Added: 0000813 | |
| 2011-05-15 14:03 | normandc | Note Added: 0000814 | |
| 2011-05-15 14:10 | yorik | Note Added: 0000816 | |
| 2011-05-15 14:20 | normandc | Note Added: 0000817 | |
| 2011-05-15 14:33 | normandc | Note Added: 0000819 | |
| 2011-05-15 14:52 | yorik | Note Added: 0000821 | |
| 2011-05-15 14:53 | yorik | Status | new => closed |
| 2011-05-15 14:53 | yorik | Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2011-05-15 14:53 | yorik | Fixed in Version | => 0.12 |
