Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice help menu

On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 03:05:15 +0000
Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi :)
> It sounds like the 'in-built' help package has not been installed.

Agreed.

> When installing LibreOffice from the upstream website (ie the
> LibreOffice website, as you would install stuff if you were using
> Windows) there are usually 3 packages to install;
> 1.  The main installer for the LibreOffice program/suite itself
> 2.  The 'in-built' help file/package
> 3.  Your language, unless En-US is your language in which case this
> package would be bundled in with the main installer.
>
> So for the LibreOffice version from your repos you may need to use a
> package-manager to search for "LibreOffice help" of "LibreOffice help
> files" or something like that.

That was the first thing I tried. There is no such package. Neither is
there in Ubuntu from what Philip says.

>  When i have installed LibreOffice in
> Ubuntu in the past (when else right??) i'm sure the help-files were
> all selected by default, automatically.  This behaviour may well have
> been changed either temporarily or deliberately for many different
> reasons.

The question is, why? And what are we supposed to do now? I've raised
an openSUSE bug #1020931. I tried installing the help from the
LibreOffice site but there's a dependency failure for libobasis5.2-en-GB

PS Please don't send me a separate copy of any reply.

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