BSD Ports

x11/gnome/yelp 49.2 OpenBSD

GNOME help browser

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Antoine Jacoutot <[email protected]>
Categories
x11/gnome

Description

Yelp is the default help browser for the GNOME desktop. Yelp provides a simple graphical interface for viewing DocBook, HTML, man, and info formatted documentation.

Displaying manual pages requires GNU groff(1) from the textproc/groff port which dependency is not enforced. It can be installed using `doas pkg_add groff'.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 49.2, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
OpenBSDx11/gnome/yelp49.2 newestno data-Antoine Jacoutot <[email protected]>-
FreeBSDx11/yelp by name42.3_2none known-[email protected]-
NetBSDmisc/yelp3 by name42.3nb11 known--2026-09-28
DragonFlyx11/yelp by name42.3none known-[email protected]-
MidnightBSDx11/yelp by name42.3no data-[email protected]2026-09-09
HardenedBSDx11/yelp by name42.3_2no data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDx11/yelp by name42.3_2no data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg_add yelp

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome/yelp && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Build dependencies 7
Run dependencies 8