Refer people to the help pages on failure to load the database.

diff --git a/Mac/Tools/IDE/PackageManager.py b/Mac/Tools/IDE/PackageManager.py
index 47329772ca4b67ae7740ecb3c6b818a7e13a1f58..de56d59ecaf5518d3ea983f91a2dcad0ce5a76f0 100755 (executable)
--- a/Mac/Tools/IDE/PackageManager.py
+++ b/Mac/Tools/IDE/PackageManager.py
@@ -230,7 +230,9 @@ class PimpInterface:
                try:
                        self.pimpdb.appendURL(url)
                except IOError, arg:
-                       return "Cannot open %s: %s" % (url, arg)
+                       rv = "Cannot open %s: %s\n" % (url, arg)
+                       rv += "\nSee MacPython Package Manager help page."
+                       return rv
                # Check whether we can write the installation directory.
                # If not, set to the per-user directory, possibly
                # creating it, if needed.