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Fred Harris · Familiar Face Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 5

Just did a sudo aptitude install devhelp libgtk2.0-doc as per Micah Carrick's directions elsewhere. It appears to have succeeded, but I don't know how to access any of it (Yes, I'm a newbie to Linux...).

In my adventures with XLib I have found that if I'm in the Terminal and I do for example a ...

man XOpenDisplay

I'll get the installed man pages for that XLib function. The same was helpful to me in my Motif/Lesstif endeavors, as for example I'll get the same result with...

man XtAppInitialize

for the results of that Xt function. But if I try...

man gtk_init

all I get is ...

No manual entry for gtk_init

I'm really at a pretty basic level here. I use GEdit to write code and command line compile in the Terminal. What would be the best way for me to access the Api documentation? The man pages were OK by me, but they don't seem to work with Gtk. Most of the time when I'm coding I'm not connected, so I'd rather have it installed locally. Any thoughts?

dreblen · Familiar Face Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 38

if you install the libgtk2.0-doc package, the api docs should be located in
/usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-doc/
then in a folder for the topic you want (gtk, gdk etc.) open index.html

Fred Harris · Familiar Face Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 5

Thanks dreblen! Exactly what I needed to know!

Fred :D

Micah Carrick · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:16 pm Post subject:

If you installed devhelp, you can browse and search the documentation like that. Devhelp can be launced by typing 'devhelp' into a terminal or (in GNOME) under the 'Applications' > 'Programming' -> 'Devhelp' menu.

Fred Harris · Familiar Face Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 5

Thanks Micah! I didn't know that either. After following dreblen's directions I bookmarked that index.html file so that worked good. Today I tried your advice and that also worked too. Wonderful!

What with Andrew's GTK book and all the docs I'm in good shap!

Fred