How to add GTKmm to Devhelp?

Question

As you know, Devhelp is an API documentation browser for GTK+ and GNOME. It by default have included reference for many GTK+ related libraries but it doesn't have Gtkmm, the C++ wrapper for GTK+, which has an online reference in gnome official reference website.

I need to get an offline reference for Gtkmm so I can keep studying while not online. I read in the description of Murrayc web page that this can be added somehow, but that link and webpage seem to dead long ago.

So,is there a way to add this official library reference to my Devhelp app?

Try installing package `libgtkmm-3.0-doc` (`libgtkmm-2.4-doc` if for whatever reason you still need GTK+ 2). — andlabs, Oct 04 '15 at 23:02
Thank you, that worked... you should put that as answer. BTW, where can I find the name of these libraries in case another is required? — Ffff, Oct 05 '15 at 17:34

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 08 '15 at 18:07

On Ubuntu, documentation is separate from normal packages (both because of space and because of licensing). As such, you will need to install separate packages to get gtkmm's documentation:

libgtkmm-3.0-doc for gtkmm for GTK+ 3
libgtkmm-2.4-doc for gtkmm for GTK+ 2

There are a number of ways you can find these packages. If you know the name of the library, you can do sudo apt-get install libname on the command line and press Tab a few times to try to tab-complete the package name. You should see one with -doc at the end. You can also use a package management tool like Synaptic to find relevant packages.

The same rules apply to header files and linker libraries; substitute -doc with -dev.

How to add GTKmm to Devhelp?

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