[SOLVED]Removing Voikko Extension from LibreOffice

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I’m trying to remove the extension "Writing aids based on Voikko 5.0’ from LibreOffice, as seen in the screenshot:

A screenshot of the LibreOffice Extensions window.
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I note it is locked and just cannot figure out how it is installed. I’ve done sudo dnf list installed | grep voikko but it did not return anything. So this leads me to believe that the extension has a different package name or it was installed through the Libreoffice extensions store. However, I’ve searched there and saw nothing of consequence installed.

How can i remove this from Libreoffice?

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The command should be:

sudo dnf list --installed | grep voikko

or:

sudo dnf list --installed "*voikko*"
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Thanks for the correction. I just did and the result was the same… No packages.

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So I guess you don’t have the libreoffice-voikko package… in which case I don’t have better ideas where it came from, sorry!

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Consider installing LibreOffice from RPMs instead of Flatpak.
I cannot reproduce the issue with Fedora/upstream RPMs.

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Thank you so much for this suggestion; it is indeed the solution. It seems that the Flatpak contains some additions, one of which is Voikko.

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FWIW, I’m using LibreOffice from Flathub, and I only have Solver for non-linear programming (the first extension from your list) bundled.

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That makes it a bit weirder since I don’t seem to have any Voikko package installed. If you note in the screenshot, all three extensions have a lock beside them, which seems to suggest that they are locked and need to be removed via elevated permissions. The problem is that I could not find any package installed on my system that points to Voikko.

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What does flatpak list | grep Voikko give?

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LibreOffice extensions don’t need to be shipped as RPM packages. You could, for instance, download them from LibreOffice’s extensions page, and install them from the Extensions menu.

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If you leave only the Bundled with LibreOffice checkbox ticked, does the Voikko extension still get displayed?

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It shows no packages installed.

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That should mean it didn’t come bundled with LibreOffice. Which of the three options selected individually displays it? If it only gets displayed with Installed for all users, then that could be the reason for not being possible to remove it (installed by another user maybe).

For testing purposes I have installed the said extension, and it gets displayed for Installed for current user. Afterwards I could uninstall it.

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All of the extensions show only when “Bundled with LibreOffice” is selected. If it is not selected, no extensions show.

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