Newbie: GIMP help-section

[Marcus Zingmark]

oldman skrev:

> Marcus Zingmark wrote:
>
>> The help-section in GIMP is mostly empty for me, I only have the 
>> subjects from 1 to 1.3, rest is empty.
>>
>> Yum says I have "gimp-help.noarch 2-0.1.0.7.1" installed
>>
>> Anyway, i tried to install "gimp-help-2.0.9.tar.gz" that I found 
>> online, and ./configure gave me this message:
>>
>> "checking for GIMP... Package gimp-2.0 was not found in the 
>> pkg-config search path.
>> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gimp-2.0.pc'
>> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>> No package 'gimp-2.0' found
>> configure: error:
>> ** Couldn't find a GIMP-2.0 installation. If you want to skip this 
>> check and
>> ** install the help files to the configured prefix, use the 
>> --without-gimp
>> ** configure option. Note that GIMP will then only find the help 
>> files if it
>> ** is installed in the same prefix. See the file 'INSTALL' for more 
>> help."
>>
>> I only want the help section up and running, and I'm kind of new to 
>> Linux, so please help :)
>>
>    I have the same gimp-help as you do, though I see much more help 
> than you do! take a look at:
>
> rpm -ql gimp-help | less
>
> which will give you a list of the files that (should have) installed, 
> check to make sure that they do exist (especially the ones in the
> /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/cs directory
> you can access these files with Firefox using url: 
> file:///usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/index.html
> Also which version of Gimp is installed? mine is gimp-2.2.8-0.fc4.2
>
> Finally, here are some links you might find useful:
> <http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/>
> <http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/>http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
> http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nem/gimp/tuts/
> http://gimp-savvy.com/
> http://gug.sunsite.dk/?page=tutorials
>
>
> Scott
>
The wierd thing is that the help is complete when I enter it from 
usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/index.html

It's only when I open it from GIMP it's not complete!