The person in the other thread was asked for an image, so I took a screen. This has 100% repro for me and is driving me nuts, because I cannot figure out what to do. I do auto daily update checking, so I have everything up to date.
Everything from the pre-installed remove-able list. I know it doesn't narrow it down, but yea. I only have GIMP and Print Settings left there from those.
Neither worked. It only temporarily works with sudo apt install --reinstall gnome-software but then goes blank after a restart again.
I have zero idea if that's of any help, but I took screenshots of what is installed:
I installed Steam through there, but for some reason it doesn't show. I think I borped my system, but since everything apart from this works and I'd borp it again when I'd reinstall and start uninstalling stuff, I don't see a point reinstalling. I hope devs release a true minimal install in the future since I've seen other people complaining. Then I'll buy and reinstall. If you figure out what I'm missing, I'd still appreciate help. If you think I'm missing something necessary unrelated to the issue, you can also mention. I appreciate the time you put into it btw. Cheers, mate.
Oof... You did do some removing...
Well, I recommend restoring
gnome-disk-utility
file-roller
gstreamer
All the python3 packages...
Much of what you use relies on Python.
File Roller manages compressed files and compression / decompression. Unless you have replaced it with another File Compress Utility, you will want to reinstall that.
Do I need to use ' sudo apt install --reinstall [insert name here from the ones you've listed (albeit unsure about the python3 stuff)]' to do so or do I do it in a different way?
Edit: it worked on the first two, gstreamer gets "E: Unable to locate package gstreamer" and not sure how to proceed with the Python stuff.
We may have not gone back far enough... How long ago did you do uninstalls?
Anything older than a month gets compressed as a log, requiring using zgrep (zip) to read. The month, going back is numbered. so month 1, month 2, month 3, would be log.1, log.2, log.3...:
Update: I didn't uninstall anything, but the tab is blank again. I give up. I tried installing app-outlet via sudo apt-get install app-outlet, but the terminal says it cannot localize the package and I downloaded the .deb version. What am I doing wrong?