[Lazarus] ide-help

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:35:31 +0200
Johann Spies <jspies at sun.ac.za> wrote:

> The lazarus packages on Ubuntu/Debian are not configured correctly and
> I have wasted a lot of time now to get the help function of the IDE
> working - without success.

What is not correctly configured? Does F1 not work?

 
> What is the index.html the StartPage is supposed to refer to?  I have
> installed the lazarus-doc package.  There are scripts in
> /usr/share/doc/lazarus/html that are supposed to be able to build
> html-documentation, but they are buggy and I had no success in
> building such documentation.

The scripts are mostly for us to create the online help. They are
written for the normal lazarus directory layout. Debian package
maintainers decided to move files. Perhaps it would be better if they
would not package those scripts.

 
> So my question, can somebody please show me how I can get the IDE help
> to make use of lazarus documentation on my computer?  

Start the IDE in a terminal and press F1. What does it show?

Mattias