Install gimp user manual locally on Linux

[NetWeeZurd]

Hi guys,

I run Fedora.

I have Gimp 3.0.6 installed through the DNF package manager.

Under Fedora... probably most RPM based distribution, there is no Gimp-Help package.
Through the KDE GUI software installer, Discover, there is a FlatPack GIMP User Manual but, 1- it's 2.1 and 2- Gimp cannot find it.

So I downloaded gimp-help-3.0.0.tar.bz2, decompressed it but where do I need to put it so Gimp sees it?


Thank You !

[rich2005]

The off-line user manual package (.deb / .rpm ...) does come from the distro repo and that can lag behind installations such as flatpak.  At the moment, the only one I know about is Debian 13 which comes with Gimp 3.0.4 I use a 'buntu PPA Gimp 3 and no manual package for that. Your situation is not unique.

You have the source code, so you would have to compile that and still no good for your flatpak. The help files are 99.9% .html but that 0.1% is enough to stop a manual unpack/move working (I have tried it, you might be more successful). It will run on its own though.

Edit: This is what I mean, a Gimp 3 help ( unpacked .deb package) running stand-alone but not from my Gimp 3.0.6 appimage, such is life.