Unable to load linkchecker-gui due to incorrect share path

[acdha]

On OS X 10.11, using pip 7.1.2 with Python 2.7.10 from Homebrew:

• pip install LinkChecker works
• linkchecker http://example.org works
• linkchecker-gui fails:

cadams@Ganymede:~ $ linkchecker-gui --help
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/linkchecker-gui", line 78, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/bin/linkchecker-gui", line 68, in main
    window = LinkCheckerMain(**mainkwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/linkcheck/gui/__init__.py", line 105, in __init__
    self.assistant = HelpWindow(self, self.get_qhcpath())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/linkcheck/gui/__init__.py", line 185, in get_qhcpath
    return configuration.get_share_file('lccollection.qhc', devel_dir=devel_dir)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/linkcheck/configuration/__init__.py", line 116, in get_share_file
    raise ValueError(msg)
ValueError: lccollection.qhc not found in ['/LinkChecker-9.3.data/data/doc/html', '/LinkChecker-9.3.data/data/share/linkchecker']; check your installation

The problem is that get_share_dir() call receives /LinkChecker-9.3.data as the first argument, constructing a path like /LinkChecker-9.3.data/data/share/linkchecker which does not exist and that failure to load the help file is fatal. Simply hard-coding get_share_data to return '/usr/local/share/linkchecker' avoids that problem and everything else appears to work.

[chrisfromredfin]

I'm not sure what the actual code fix is supposed to be, but +1 to this working for me.

[dpalic]

Thank you for the issue report. Sadly this project is dead, and a new team is around with https://github.com/linkcheck/linkchecker for more details please see: #708 Also please close this issue and report it freshly on the new repo https://github.com/linkcheck/linkchecker/issues if your issue still persists