You must have version skew somewhere. The behaviour you are describing is not the behaviour of the packages, which is:
- Only one -help package is installable at once - they conflict with each other. - Each help package installs its help files in /usr/lib/openoffice/help/<lang>, and creates a link that points to the real language. For example: drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 11 20:20 de lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Sep 11 20:20 en -> de So, the symlink that you mentioned is created for you, and help is only ever available in one language for the whole system. Yes, it would be nice to have such a system where help is installable in several languages, with a fallback to English, but this requires source modifications. The Mandrake packages already have them but I haven't had time to apply yet. Chris