On 2016-12-20 08:34 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
When I right click on the top panel and then chose "Help" I receive
"Could not display help document 'mate-user-guide'. The specified
location is not supported."
As I do not have adequate bandwidth for install from internet I use
purchased sets of DVDs. I assumed the document had not been on DVD1. I
used Synaptic to add the other 12 DVDs. I searched for
'mate-user-guide' without success.
Where would the required documentation be?
Apparently it was only packaged after the Jessie release, due to some
licensing issues (GFDL) in versions prior to 1.10. You could install
the version from testing[1] or an older one from snapshot.debian.org[2].
The latter is probably preferable, since it's closer to the mate
version in stable.
Alternatively, Linux Mint has a 1.8.1 version in their repositories[3]
which you could install. Here is the usual disclaimer: inspect the
package before you install it, and if there's any file conflict with
Debian packages you are on your own.
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://packages.debian.org/stretch/mate-user-guide
2. http://snapshot.debian.org/package/mate-desktop/1.10.2-1/#mate-user-guide_1.10.2-1
3. http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/import/m/mate-desktop/mate-user-guide_1.8.1-0_all.deb