Libreoffice user interface language cannot be determined

[erbenton]

libreoffice 26.2 wont start,In a terminal I get this result

LibreOffice 26.2 - Fatal Error: The application cannot be started.
The user interface language cannot be determined.

I have force reinstalled,looked for any locale that i might have missed,
I tried this:

mv ~/.config/libreoffice ~/.config/libreoffice_backup

and still i get that same failure
has anyone else run into this and if so ho did you solve it
my Tumbleweed is up to date
Where does LO look for language info ?

[marel]

This should give the system variables Libreoffice checks (in this order):

> echo $LANG; echo $LC_ALL; echo $LC_MESSAGES; echo $LANGUAGE
en_NL.utf-8


en_US

[erbenton]

@marel

echo $LANG; echo $LC_ALL; echo $LC_MESSAGES; echo $LANGUAGE

I set every one of them and ran libreoffice all in the same konsole session and it made no difference. I still get that failure

[knurpht]

Please show
zypper lr -d
zypper se -si libreoffice

[marel]

Looks your libreoffice install is currupted.

After running that zypper search from @knurpht I would deinstall all packages that are listed and reinstall them.

You could also run zypper install --force libreoffice

  -f, --force
      Install even if the item is already installed (reinstall), downgraded or changes vendor or architecture.```

[erbenton]

Simply uninstalling and reeinstalling does not work, you have to manually clean out every trace of it and then install it in flatpac. That works nicely. Consult Gemini AI for help cleaning out the original install (not chatgpt) and setting up some necessary links to fltpaac’s LibreOffice install so your original menu items will still work.