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Where does html/en need to be installed in GIMP file structure, please?

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Gimp 2.6 help files, a bit of a PITA.

unpack the archive (I use peazip) and eventually you get down to a folder

/gimp-help-2/html/en/ which contains a whole load of files and an /images folder

this goes in /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/

big *but* if you want to call the help files from gimp 2.6.x it probably will not work.

What I have found to work is:

Install the gimp 2.4 help package from your repo. Check that it works.

Copy all the archive "en" files & the /images to the /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en directory overwriting anything of the same name. You end up with a few surplus files but not that many and help (F1) called from gimp works.

I hope someone has a better solution. Just broke my installation messing around and to reinstall gimp 2.4 help, then the new files so here is a screen shot.

http://www.imageno.com/fh1pn2dlnu2apic.html

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 07:20 -0600, Doug Huffman wrote:

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Where does html/en need to be installed in GIMP file structure, please?

The file you downloaded is not meant to be installed by users. If possible, please grab an installer for your platform.

If that is not possible (your platform might not have an appropriate installer released yet), then you can also unpack the tarball that you downloaded and place the "en" folder into $prefix/share/gimp/2.0/help where $prefix would /usr or /usr/local or wherever your GIMP installation resides.

Sven

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Thanks for the directions, they seem a bit linux-centric for me dozing over Windoze, and failing to mention that. If I can unpack a tar to an HTML, will my Windoze make such a difference?

On 2/7/2011 07:47, rich wrote:

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Where does html/en need to be installed in GIMP file structure, please?

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snipped a load of linux stuff

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Always dangerous to assume, the .tar.bz2 format is very much a linux thing, gpg (mingw32) gpg should have been a clue.

For windows, first install gimp help 2.6 from sourceforge and check that it works.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

Then if you desperately want v2.61 unpack the archive. Use whatever you want but peazip works and there is a windows version.

then the (default) location is

C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\help\en

screenshot here.

http://imgur.com/bsAoI

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Thanks for the directions, they seem a bit linux-centric for me dozing over Windoze, and failing to mention that. If I can unpack a tar to an HTML, will my Windoze make such a difference?

On 2/7/2011 07:47, rich wrote:

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Where does html/en need to be installed in GIMP file structure, please?

snip

snipped a load of linux stuff

LOL

Always dangerous to assume, the .tar.bz2 format is very much a linux thing, gpg (mingw32) gpg should have been a clue.

For windows, first install gimp help 2.6 from sourceforge and check that it works.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

Then if you desperately want v2.61 unpack the archive. Use whatever you want but peazip works and there is a windows version.

then the (default) location is

C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\help\en

screenshot here.

http://imgur.com/bsAoI