Dnfdragora quits at middle with an error while installing packages in Fedora 42

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After installing Fedora 42,while using “dnfdragora” package,it quits in the middle while package installation is under process.

POP UP ERROR MESSAGE SHOWS:—>

Heading:—>“Error in Status DNFDragoraStatus.RUN_TRANSACTION on Run Transaction”

Body Statement:—> “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply:Did not receive a reply.
Possible causes include:the remote application did not send a reply,the message bus security policy blocked the reply,the reply timeout expired,or the network connection was broken.”

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Please help me out of this dire situation.

2

dnfdragora isn’t worth the effort to fix, it’s totally broken in f42, replace it with gnome-software.

sudo dnf swap dnfdragora gnome-software
3

gnome-software is not a true replacement for dnfdragore. gnome-software only shows the apps, and not every package in the dnf repositories are apps. For example, you won’t find the gcc compiler in gnome-software as it is not an app.

Besides, neither integrates with dnf5 history and status at the moment.

Correction, as of Fedora 41.

4

Hi
in fedora 42 maybe dnfdragora at vers. 2.99 I thought it was integrated into dnf5. Was I wrong to think so?

5

No, you are not.

6

Won’t there be a FIX for dnfdragora if it is broken???

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https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-e7a918e6d7

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Thanks @leigh123linux ,but after performing the command and subsequent reboot,I opened dnfdragora…it gets stuck at “Caching Updates” of 33% under “Creating Package Cache”. The functional bar gets stuck at 33%…