I've gotten utterly flummoxed in trying to enable the search facility in the help system. To start, there seem to be two help systems with an unclear relationship between them: SuSE Help and the KDE Help Center. If I click on the "lifesaver" I get a window whose title is "KDE Help Center" but whose text has the title "SuSE Help Center". There seem to be several related packages: susehelp, susehelp_en, kdebase3, and kdebase3-SuSE. I can't figure out how those relate to each other either. I had the search function working before I installed KDE 3.2. I've since then reverted to KDE 3.1.4 because of all my problems with 3.2, but I haven't gotten the search function to work again, at least not as an ordinary user. The "Build Search Index" function of the KDE Help Center can be gotten to by clicking on Search and then on Create Search Index. But I can't find any explanation of the "Build Search Index" window, and clicking "OK" there causes an abortive attempt to build an index. Looking at the details I see that htdig has been called but apparently with an empty argument. There's a place to specify an index directory but I have no idea what that directory should be or contain, or even it it's an input or an output. To add to the confusion, if I log in as root I can in fact build the search index, though it's still missing a number of pieces. An extra level of confusion is caused by the fact that the help can be accessed either through the normal interface or through a web interface, which requires apache. However, the indexing problems seem to be independent of which interface is used. Explanations or pointers to relevant documentation or configuration files would be much appreciated. Paul Abrahams