Re: Progress setting up Balsa for the first time

Peter Bloomfield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.balsa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Hi André:

On 11/27/2017 07:38:06 PM Mon, andré via balsa-list wrote:
> Hi Jack, Peter
> 
> I'm making progress with Balsa :
> Note that I'm compiling the latest release, rather than downloading from git.
> 
> 1) Although I can't yet see the help files in Balsa, they are indeed installed,
> in /usr/local/share/help/{language}/balsa/
> I tried specifying in configure --with-help-dir=/usr/local/share/help.
> That didn't change where the help files were installed, nor make them visible.
> I suspect it is due to one of the many differences between Mageia & Fedora libraries.
> It isn't a big problem for me, but I'd like to eventually solve it.

If I run 'strace -f balsa' and ask for the help files, I see many attempts to find */help/*/balsa, and in my case it succeeds with /usr/local/share/help/C/balsa. That could help you find where your yelp expects to find the files.

HTH!

Peter
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