Yes David. On further investigation, I think there are some packaging issues around "Assistive Tools" that prevent this topic from being dislayed localized in Maverick. In short, I think the Ubuntu gnome language packs do not install the localized Assistive Tools content, which is a gnome-user-guide topic. Here's how it looks to me. Yelp looks for localized content here: /usr/share/gnome/help/TOPIC/LANG/ In Ubuntu, there are links installed there that point to the following location: /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/TOPIC/LANG So yelp tries to open files where it expects them but actually ends up opening files that exist in another location because of the links. A closer look. First I'l show a topic that works, then show this topic, which is broken, for comparisoon. The TOPIC that works is 'newtoubuntu' and the LANG is zh_CN. The newtoubuntu LINK is installed by ubuntu-docs package: $ ls -alh /usr/share/gnome/help/newtoubuntu/zh_CN/newtoubuntu.xml lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 2010-12-14 14:26 /usr/share/gnome/help/newtoubuntu/zh_CN/newtoubuntu.xml -> /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/newtoubuntu/zh_CN/newtoubuntu.xml $ dpkg -S /usr/share/gnome/help/newtoubuntu/zh_CN/newtoubuntu.xml ubuntu-docs: /usr/share/gnome/help/newtoubuntu/zh_CN/newtoubuntu.xml The newtoubuntu LINK TARGET is installed by language-pack-gnome-zh-hans-base: $ ls -alh /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/newtoubuntu/zh_CN/newtoubuntu.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49K 2010-09-20 04:59 /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/newtoubuntu/zh_CN/newtoubuntu.xml $ dpkg -S /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/newtoubuntu/zh_CN/newtoubuntu.xml language-pack-gnome-zh-hans-base: /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/newtoubuntu/zh_CN/newtoubuntu.xml This works. That is, one sees localized "New to Ubuntu" on the front page of the Ubuntu Help Center displayed in yelp. Now lets look at broken TOPIC gnome-access-guide ("Assisitive Tools"). The gnome-access-guide LINK is installed by gnome-user-guide-zh package: $ ls -alh /usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-access-guide/zh_CN/gnome-access-guide.xmllrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 78 2010-12-16 14:45 /usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-access-guide/zh_CN/gnome-access-guide.xml -> /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/gnome-access-guide/zh_CN/gnome-access-guide.xml $ dpkg -S /usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-access-guide/zh_CN/gnome-access-guide.xml gnome-user-guide-zh: /usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-access-guide/zh_CN/gnome-access-guide.xml The gnome-access-guide LINK TARGET is not installed by ANY package: $ dpkg -S /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/gnome-access-guide/zh_CN/gnome-access-guide.xml dpkg: /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/gnome-access-guide/zh_CN/gnome-access-guide.xml not found. $ cd /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/gnome-access-guide/zh_CN/ bash: cd: /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/gnome-access-guide/zh_CN/: No such file or directory $ cd /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/gnome-access-guide/ bash: cd: /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/gnome-access-guide/: No such file or directory $ cd /usr/share/gnome/help-langpack/ Even though I have what would seem to be the right lang packs installed: $ apt-cache policy language-pack-gnome-zh language-pack-gnome-zh: Installed: 1:10.04+20091218 Candidate: 1:10.04+20091218 Version table: *** 1:10.04+20091218 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ apt-cache policy language-pack-gnome-zh-hans language-pack-gnome-zh-hans: Installed: 1:10.10+20100930 Candidate: 1:10.10+20100930 Version table: *** 1:10.10+20100930 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ apt-cache policy language-pack-gnome-zh-hans-base language-pack-gnome-zh-hans-base: Installed: 1:10.10+20100930 Candidate: 1:10.10+20100930 Version table: *** 1:10.10+20100930 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status IN SUMMARY: the lang packs are not installing the localized gnome content for at least this topic.