TLDR; I spent nearly two hours troubleshooting my broken system, because I installed a Windows spell checker for my LibreOffice.

  1. Install the .oxt file for your Linux LibreOffice installation
  2. Don’t realize it was for Windows only
  3. Freeze your system completely for 15 seconds, after which it’s business as normal
  4. LibreOffice works okay, so don’t notice anything else
  5. Install additional spellers from Synaptic because the first one didn’t work
  6. Realize Linux Mint Software Center GUI is broken and most of the flatpacks aren’t displayed
  7. Perform two system resets using Timeshift, nothing changed
  8. Realize the speller you installed was Windows-only, purge all LibreOffice components, problem solved
  9. Also realize you had to install a system package version of LibreOffice (instead of Flatpack) for the speller from Synaptic to work
  10. Feel like a noob

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    • lapislazuli@sopuli.xyzOP
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      9 months ago

      Thank you, I’m pretty proud of myself as well. I was already prepared to re-install from scratch, because I have backups in place. I still can’t understand why a tiny programme completely borked Software Center, but apparently Windows and Linux don’t mix at all, unless you use Wine.