Here are my experiences, with the new packages (1.0.1-5) where the help files are separated from the language packs:
I have installed OpenOffice.org with a language pack and the English help because there is no help in that language yet. However, OOo is not able to find any help files at all. When I start help, I just get the message "The requested document does not exist in the database !!" Extended tips are not available either, instead falling back to ordinary, short tooltips. Before the help files were separated, all languages kept their help files in /usr/lib/openoffice/help/<language_code>. (Even if they were untranslated, which of course was a huge waste of space.) Now, there is only /usr/lib/openoffice/help/en, and these files are not read if the language is set to something other than English. Creating a symlink from /usr/lib/openoffice/help/<language_code> to /usr/lib/openoffice/help/en will work. If there is a configuration option somewhere, to choose the help language separately, that would be even better. Regards, Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes
