Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

[Scott Webster]

In gimp, try:

Edit -> Preferences

then click on the "Help System" pane, then switch the "User manual"
drop-down to "Use a locally installed copy".

Works for me.

Scott

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:18 PM, John Essam <jnessam at mac.com> wrote:
> installed sudo port install gimp-user-manual, then when I tried to use
> onscreen help this message came up
>
>  Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading:
> Operation not supported
>
> Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS?
>
> Any clues?
>
>
>
>
> On 13 Jun 2010, at 00:00, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Jun 12, 2010, at 17:49, John Essam wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12 Jun 2010, at 23:43, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There's the gimp-user-manual port. Not sure if that installs the same
>>>> files that you've got there.
>>>
>>> how do activate the gimp user manual port
>>
>> Well, you can install it just like any other port, as in:
>>
>> sudo port install gimp-user-manual
>>
>> Once it's installed, I'm not sure how it gets used; I don't use gimp
>> myself, but if you can't figure it out, maybe someone else here does.
>>
>>
>
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