Rush - SUSE 10 Issues

Rush Render Queue - SUSE 10.0 Issues
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V 103.07b 05/11/16


	Using Rush with SUSE 10

irush Help documentation not opening.


	irush Help documentation not opening

In SUSE 10 there is no 'htmlview' command in the OS which irush expects to be present to open the currently configured web browser. This causes 'irush' not to be able to open some of the docs under the 'Help' menu.

'htmlview' is a simple standard used by RedHat and Fedora distributions to open the local web browser from 3rd party applications. Apparently SUSE hasn't embraced this technique.

Fortunately 'htmlview' can be a very simple script that you can put in /usr/bin to open your web browser of preference, e.g.:

#!/bin/csh -f
/usr/bin/firefox $*:q

Just create that simple as /usr/bin/htmlview, and make sure it's exectuable (use 'chmod a+x /usr/bin/htmlview')

Once installed, the irush Help menu should function properly. If you're using a csh or tcsh login shell, be sure to 'rehash' before restarting irush to clear the PATH cache.