Bug#587504: paraview: On-Line help broken

[Henning Glawe]

Package: paraview
Version: 3.6.2-4+b1
Severity: normal

Moin,
selecting 'Help:Help' in the menu makes a messagebox show up:

'Couldn't find pqClient.adp.
Try setting the PARAVIEW_HELP environment variable which points to that file'

dlocate shows that this file can be found in /usr/share/doc/paraview/
starting paraview with PARAVIEW_HELP in env from a terminal and selecting the
help option yields:

glawe at ford:~> export PARAVIEW_HELP=/usr/share/doc/paraview/pqClient.adp
glawe at ford:~> paraview 
QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename
Unknown option: -server Usage: assistant [Options] -collectionFile file Uses
the specified collection file instead of the default one -showUrl url Shows
the document with the url. -enableRemoteControl Enables Assistant to be
remotely controlled. -show widget Shows the specified dockwidget which can be
"contents", "index", "bookmarks" or "search". -activate widget Activates the
specified dockwidget which can be "contents", "index", "bookmarks" or
"search". -hide widget Hides the specified dockwidget which can be
"contents", "index" "bookmarks" or "search". -register helpFile Registers the
specified help file (.qch) in the given collection file. -unregister helpFile
Unregisters the specified help file (.qch) from the give collection file.
-setCurrentFilter filter Set the filter as the active filter.
-remove-search-index Removes the full text search index. -quiet Does not
display any error or status message. -help Displays this help.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages paraview depends on:
ii  libavcodec52       5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 library to encode decode multimedi
ii  libavformat52      5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil49        4:0.5.2-1             ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6              2.11.2-2              Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-7               XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfreetype6       2.3.11-1              FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1            1:4.4.4-6             GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [l 7.7.1-3               A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libg 7.7.1-3               The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.8 1.8.4-patch1-2        Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libice6            2:1.0.6-1             X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62          6b-16.1               The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libopenmpi1.3      1.4.1-3               high performance message passing l
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.44-1              PNG library - runtime
ii  libpython2.6       2.6.5+20100626-1      Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii  libqt4-assistant   4:4.6.3-1             Qt 4 assistant module
ii  libqt4-network     4:4.6.3-1             Qt 4 network module
ii  libqt4-sql         4:4.6.3-1             Qt 4 SQL module
ii  libqt4-xml         4:4.6.3-1             Qt 4 XML module
ii  libqtcore4         4:4.6.3-1             Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4          4:4.6.3-1             Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libsm6             2:1.1.1-1             X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6         4.4.4-6               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libswscale0        5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 ffmpeg video scaling library
ii  libtiff4           3.9.4-1               Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6           2:1.3.3-3             X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6           2:1.1.1-3             X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2            2.7.7.dfsg-3          GNOME XML library
ii  libxt6             1:1.0.7-1             X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  python             2.6.5-5               An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support     1.0.9                 automated rebuilding support for P
ii  qt4-dev-tools      4:4.6.3-1             Qt 4 development tools
ii  tcl8.4 [tclsh]     8.4.19-4              Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii  tcl8.5 [tclsh]     8.5.8-2               Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages paraview recommends:
ii  mpi-default-bin               0.6        Standard MPI runtime programs
ii  qt4-dev-tools                 4:4.6.3-1  Qt 4 development tools

Versions of packages paraview suggests:
pn  h5utils                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  hdf5-tools                    <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

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henning