---
name: "yelp"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "yelp"
version: "42.2-4+deb13u1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/yelp"
---

# yelp(1)

browse system documentation

## NAME

yelp — browse system documentation

## USAGE

yelp \[file\]

The GNOME Help Browser includes detailed documentation  for the majority of applications, utilities and other  components, such as the panel or the Nautilus file manager.

Yelp can display some HTML and XML files when passed  on the command-line, but it's primarily called from  applications.

You can also start Yelp by choosing Desktop-\>Help.  This will show the top-level help system page, listing all  GNOME documents conveniently organized by topic.

## OPTIONS

This program accepts all the standard GNOME  and GTK+ options, which follow  the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting  with two dashes (\`-'). To get more information about these  options launch Yelp with the \`--help' argument.

## AUTHOR

Yelp was written by Mikael  Hallendal and  Alexander Larsson .

This manual page was written by Jerry Haltom  \<wasabi@larvalstage.net\> for the Debian system (but may  be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute  and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU  Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later  version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no  Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover  Texts.