On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 10:05:44PM +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 10:02 PM Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > If you are using Fedora Workstation, you can't. gnome-shell is a > > protected package, and the definition of that is defined by the > > fedora-release-identity-workstation package. > > > > > Sorry for my ignorance but what are protected packages ? https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conf_ref.html protected_packages List of packages that DNF should never completely remove. They are protected via Obsoletes as well as user/plugin removals. The default is: dnf, glob:/etc/yum/protected.d/*.conf and glob:/etc/dnf/protected.d/*.conf. So any packages which should be protected can do so by including a file in /etc/dnf/protected.d with their package name in it. DNF will protect also the package corresponding to the running version of the kernel. See also protect_running_kernel option. The fedora-release-package-identity-workstation package has: /etc/dnf/protected.d/gnome-shell.conf ... which has 'gnome-shell' in it. > > If you replace that with fedora-release-identity-kde, you'd probably > > have better luck. > > > > And could you elaborate on what you meant by this ? If you have Fedora Workstation installed, you have the 'fedora-release-workstation' package installed, which has 'fedora-release-identity-workstation' as a requirement. You'd need to swap it out for fedora-release-kde, which you could do with this: sudo dnf swap fedora-release-workstation fedora-release-kde I'm not sure if Fedora has documented changing from one kind of fedora to another. -- Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
