diff -aurN gnumeric-1.7.0.orig/src/wbcg-actions.c gnumeric-1.7.0/src/wbcg-actions.c
--- gnumeric-1.7.0.orig/src/wbcg-actions.c	2006-05-01 17:33:34.000000000 +0200
+++ gnumeric-1.7.0/src/wbcg-actions.c	2006-06-11 20:27:13.636128632 +0200
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@
 
 #ifndef G_OS_WIN32
 	argv[0] = (char *)"yelp";
-	argv[1] = (char *)"help:gnumeric";
+	argv[1] = (char *)"/usr/share/gnome/help/gnumeric/C/gnumeric.xml";
 	g_spawn_async (NULL, argv, NULL, G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH,
 		NULL, NULL, NULL, &error);
 #else