Tips&Tricks Mandrake 9.0 and Galeon

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veselosky

Newbie

Joined: 06 Oct 2002

Posts: 2

Location: Atlanta, GA USA

 

Post Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 9:29 pm Post subject: Mandrake 9.0 and Galeon

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If you are accustomed to browsing man pages or info pages with Galeon, you may have the same trouble I did with Mandrake 9.0. Galeon uses external programs to convert man pages and info documents to html. Apparently version 1.2.5 hard-codes the names of these external programs as "gnome-man2html2" and "gnome-info2html2". Those programs have different names on Mandrake 9.0, so browsing man pages with Galeon fails, and might crash the browser.

 

I corrected this problem by simply creating a symlink to the actual programs as they are named in Mandrake 9.0.

 

ln -s /usr/lib/gnome2-man2html /usr/bin/gnome-man2html2

ln -s /usr/lib/gnome2-info2html /usr/bin/gnome-info2html2

 

Restart Galeon and things work fine again.

 

-Vince

 

 

LinuxPunk

Frequent user

Joined: 27 Sep 2002

Posts: 53

Post Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 11:06 pm Post subject:

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OR, even better yet, just use the "man" and "info" commands in console! Looks much better that way anyways. Smile

 

 

 

Editor's note: This thread was originally posted at the old MUB (Mandrake User Board at club-nihil). This post is the result of a 99% automatic backup, so due to its nature some text may be lost (improbable but possible).