The packages ispell-german-3.1.20-22.i386.rpm and ispell-dicts-3.1.20-22.i386.rpm don't install all of there files. Installing ispell-german via "rpm -Uvv" prints: D: counting packages to install D: found 1 packages D: looking for packages to download D: retrieved 0 packages D: New Header signature D: Signature size: 149 D: Signature pad : 3 D: sigsize : 152 D: Header + Archive: 1164558 D: expected size : 1164558 D: opening database mode 0x42 in //var/lib/rpm/ D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages D: installing binary packages D: getting list of mounted filesystems D: New Header signature D: Signature size: 149 D: Signature pad : 3 D: sigsize : 152 D: Header + Archive: 1164558 D: expected size : 1164558 D: package: ispell-german-3.1.20-22 files test = 0 D: file: /usr/doc/ispell-german-3.1.20 action: create D: file: /usr/doc/ispell-german-3.1.20/ANNOUNCE action: create D: file: /usr/doc/ispell-german-3.1.20/Changes action: create D: file: /usr/doc/ispell-german-3.1.20/Contributors action: create D: file: /usr/doc/ispell-german-3.1.20/README action: create D: file: /usr/lib/ispell/deutsch.aff action: skipnstate D: file: /usr/lib/ispell/deutsch.hash action: skipnstate D: file: /usr/lib/ispell/deutschlxg.hash action: skipnstate D: file: /usr/lib/ispell/deutschmed.hash action: skipnstate D: file: /usr/lib/ispell/german.hash action: skipnstate D: running preinstall script (if any) ispell-german-3.1.20-22 D: running postinstall scripts (if any) The files in /usr/lib/ispell are not installed, the ones in /usr/doc are. Seems to be a bug in the src.rpm spec. Or maybe a missing dependency which causes one of the install scripts to fail? Cheers Cord
the files are being skipped because you do not have a german Locale specified. If you had a german Locale specified, they would be installed.