RE: [libreoffice-users] offline Help LO 25.8.4.2

Thanks for your fast and right answer to my question Remy,

 

I did not look at the URL’s of the help at all, but they are – as you also experienced – pointing 
to the locally installed help:

file:///opt/libreoffice25.8/help/en-US/text….. and

 <file:///opt/libreoffice25.8/help/nl/text/shared/> 
file:///opt/libreoffice25.8/help/nl/text/shared/....

 

Thanks to you I am now aware the LibreOffice uses the browser als as their Help-viewer.

 

Thanks a lot,

 

Kind regards, Hans Troost

 

From: Remy Gauthier <remygauthier@yahoo.com> 
Sent: vrijdag 16 januari 2026 17:36
To: ht.lists@gmail.com; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] offline Help LO 25.8.4.2

 

Hello,

 

I do the same with the help in French. I install the helppack_en-US and helppack_fr and everything 
works well. Do remember that even if you have the offline help installed, the help is still 
displayed using your default browser. Did you have a look at the URL of the help? In my environment 
(Fedora 42), if I open the LibreOffice Help from Writer, this is the URL of the page that gets 
called:

 

French locale: file:///home/opt/libreoffice25.8/help/fr/text/shared/05/new_help.html?System=UNIX 
<file:///home/opt/libreoffice25.8/help/fr/text/shared/05/new_help.html?System=UNIX&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=.uno:HelpIndex#bm_id3806162>
 &DbPAR=WRITER&HID=.uno:HelpIndex#bm_id3806162

English locale: 
file:///home/opt/libreoffice25.8/help/en-US/text/shared/05/new_help.html?System=UNIX 
<file:///home/opt/libreoffice25.8/help/en-US/text/shared/05/new_help.html?System=UNIX&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=.uno:HelpIndex#bm_id3806162>
 &DbPAR=WRITER&HID=.uno:HelpIndex#bm_id3806162

 

These are pointing to my local installation, not a page from the LO help site which is something 
more like this:

 

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/fr/text/shared/05/new_help.html? 
<https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/fr/text/shared/05/new_help.html?&DbPAR=SHARED&System=UNIX> 
&DbPAR=SHARED&System=UNIX

 

I hope this helps.

Rémy.

 

Le vendredi 16 janvier 2026 à 17:11 +0100, ht.lists@gmail.com <mailto:ht.lists@gmail.com>  a écrit :

Hi all,

 

 

Using LibreOffice (25.8.45.2) on my Debian 13 (Trixie) – see below - I just decided to enable Dutch 
UI-language:

 

 

Downloaded and installed LibreOffice_25.8.4.2_Linux_x86-64_deb_langpack_nl: works perfect!

 

 

I also prefer offline Help instead of online. So downloaded it for both EN-us and nl:

 

 

LibreOffice_25.8.4.2_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-US and

 

LibreOffice_25.8.4.2_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_nl

 

 

 

Both installed without any problems but both don’t work: both in English and Dutch (nl) interface 
my browser (Firefox) starts with LO Help when invoking Help.

 

Setting: "Warn if local help is not installed" is enabled and - properly - doesn’t warn: offline 
Help is installed.

 

 

 

Any idea what I do wrong?

 

 

 

Thanks for any tip, I will try them

 

 

 

Hans Troost

 

 

 

LibreOffice version:

 

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Version: 25.8.4.2 (X86_64)

 

Build ID: 290daaa01b999472f0c7a3890eb6a550fd74c6df

 

CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+wayland)

 

Locale: nl-NL (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US

 

Calc: threaded

 

 

 

My (Virtual) Machine:

 

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OS: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) x86_64

 

Host: VirtualBox (1.2)

 

Kernel: Linux 6.12.63+deb13-amd64

 

Uptime: 11 mins

 

Packages: 1997 (dpkg)

 

Shell: bash 5.2.37

 

Display (Virtual-2): 1200x1795 @ 60 Hz

 

Display (Virtual-1): 2560x1315 @ 60 Hz

 

DE: KDE Plasma 6.3.6

 

WM: KWin (Wayland)

 

WM Theme: Breeze

 

Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]

 

Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]

 

Font: Inter (11pt) [Qt], Inter (11pt) [GTK2/3/4]

 

Cursor: breeze (24px)

 

Terminal: konsole 25.4.2

 

CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1260P (4) @ 2.50 GHz

 

GPU: VMware SVGA II Adapter

 

Memory: 2.40 GiB / 7.76 GiB (31%)

 

Swap: 0 B / 7.45 GiB (0%)

 

Disk (/): 11.68 GiB / 36.37 GiB (32%) - ext4

 

Disk (/home): 5.38 GiB / 27.33 GiB (20%) - ext4

 

Local IP (enp0s3): 192.168.1.217/24

 

Battery (1): 79% [AC Connected]

 

Locale: en_US.UTF-8

 

 

 


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