Re: 3.8 GUI documentation tab: click link freezes Octave

[Colin Beckingham]

On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 21:00 +0100, Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote:
> Hi Colin,
> this is a known issue. You have to unzip the info files of octave to get rid 
> of the problem (/usr/share/info/octave*). 
> I stumbled over the very same issue a while ago and was told how to 
> circumvent 
> this problem. 
> Unfortunately my programming skills are not sufficient in order to provide a 
> feasible solution for the issue.
> Hope this helps,
> take care
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dieter Jurzitza
> 
> On Montag, 3. März 2014 20:46:23 Colin Beckingham wrote:
> > I'm running on openSUSE 12.3 with Octave from the Science repo. All
> > seems to be well, except that if I try to click any link in the GUI
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Thanks much, problem solved.