Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

[John Essam]

Yea tried that already Scott, it comes up with "the gimp help browser  
plug in appears to be missing from your installation"


On 14 Jun 2010, at 04:23, Scott Webster wrote:

> 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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