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merryjohn
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help Manual

Post by merryjohn » Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:00 am

Hi
I'm new to Qcad but not new to Cad in General
Qcad looks Good but on the second time of using selsecting Help either with F1 or via the menu closes Qcad down??
Running Ubuntu 7?

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Same Problem in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

Post by quickstep » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:36 pm

When selecting 'Help -> Manual (F1)' QCAD crashes with a segmentation fault (started from command line). No additional error messages are provided.

I am running QCAD Version: 2.2.1.0 [Professional] on Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 4. Thanks for any suggestions.

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Post by andrew » Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:43 pm

There seems to be a problem with the help browser on certain installations.

Please note that you can also browse the manual with any regular Internet browser such as Firefox or Konqueror. Simply open the file index.html in the subfolder "doc" of your QCad installation.

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Follow-up

Post by quickstep » Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:49 pm

Thanks andrew. That works of course and I was aware of it. It would just be handy to access it right out of QCad. I also followed the advice in FAQ 16. http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad_doc_faq.html#16 and deleted the entry in ~/.assistant. That did not help though. My old QCad community version I removed as well.

I guess I have to hope for a fix of that in the next QCad version or hope that it is not a problem in the next (K)Ubuntu version anymore.

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Post by Lupus » Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:06 pm

Sorry for raising a dead thread, but i had the same problem and solved it. I've searched for "qcad help segmentation fault" and this was a hit.

Qcad needs his application directory as the current working directory. Say your installation is under /opt/qcad you can't link /opt/qcad/qcad to /usr/bin/qcad to get it in your path and you can't start /opt/qcad/qcad when you want to use F1-help.

Solution: build a simple quick'n'dirty wrapper script
#!/bin/sh
cd /opt/qcad
exec ./qcad $@

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Problem solved

Post by carvar » Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:46 am

To fix the problem it is necessary to decompress the file "qcaddoc.adp.gz" that is in the directory /usr/share/doc/qcad/html. Then create a link from the qcad directory and name it doc

Steps

sudo gunzip /usr/share/doc/qcad/html/qcaddoc.adp.gz
sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/qcad/html /usr/share/qcad/doc

I did that on Ubuntu 10.04 and it works.

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Post by jimfleig » Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:39 pm

My thanks to carvar's post on Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:46 pm. I ran the command lines in carvar's post in terminal and this worked for me also.

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