Yelp (software)

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Yelp
Original author(s) Mikael Hallendal and Alexander Larsson [1]
Initial releaseOctober 27, 2001;21 years ago (2001-10-27) [2]
Stable release
42.2 [3] / 17 October 2022;12 months ago (17 October 2022)
Repository gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp
License GPLv2 [4]
Website yelp.io

Yelp, also known as the GNOME Help Browser [1] is the default help viewer for GNOME that allows users to access help documentation. [5] Yelp follows the freedesktop.org help system specification [6] and reads mallard, DocBook, man pages, info, and HTML documents. [7] HTML is available by using XSLT to render XML documents into HTML. [8]

Yelp has a search feature [9] as well as a toolbar at the top for navigation through previously viewed documentation. [10]

Yelp can be accessed by typing yelp either into GNOME Shell, after pressing Alt+F2 within GNOME, or within a terminal [11] using the yelp [file] format. [1] [12] The command gnome-help can also be used to access Yelp. [13]

Although Yelp is not required for GNOME to function, it is required to view GNOME's help documentation. [14] Ubuntu also uses yelp to provide a customized help interface for its software. [15]

A format string vulnerability in GNOME versions 2.19.90 and 2.24 allowed arbitrary code execution through Yelp. [16]

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