Putting kmail manual into khelp

[pwabrahams]

When I use khelp to find the Kmail Manual, it says it's not there. I did, however, find it at docs.kde.org. Is there a way I can repair my copy of khelp so that it displays the Kmail Manual?

[vinnywright]

install "kdepim-doc" then you will find the kmail under the Kontact section

VINNY

[SteveRiley]

Hey, Vinny, neat find!

After seeing this, I started to wonder what other installed packages might be missing their documentation. I hacked together a quick bit of command-line fu that:

* iterates through all installed packages
* searches the APT cache for any matching package names with a trailing "-doc"

I ended up with two runs. This one iterates over the full package name. It will match, for example, foo-doc and bar-stuff-doc.

for x in $(dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1); do apt-cache search ^$x-doc --names-only; done

This one iterates only over the first word in each package name. Whereas the earlier one would miss bar-doc, this one will find it. Useful in cases where the documentation for bar-stuff happens to be in bar-doc.

for x in $(dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | cut -d- -f1 | uniq); do apt-cache search ^$x-doc --names-only; done

Possibly not the most elegant, but useful if you want to find more documentation to install.

[oshunluvr]

Geeze, can you guys tell Steve's an engineer?

Why use a hammer when a factory can do the job?

[vinnywright]

Geeze, can you guys tell Steve's an engineer?

Why use a hammer when a factory can do the job?

LOL .........I do like that though .

and really it was no trouble to find it .
just going to Kickoff>applications>help>Kontact displayed the needed information...... "not found install kdepim-doc bla bla bla "!!
I just nudged the OP to actually do it ......hope he did

VINNY