I have an old laptop with F43 KDE, I recently added MATE because it’s faster and has basic things I need. I heard the news that Ubuntu MATE maintainer is stepping down so though to try something else and choose LXQt (last release of MATE and xfce where two years ago and LXQt appears to be regularly maintained). Here is what I get:
fedora@fedora:~$ sudo dnf update
[sudo] password for fedora:
Updating and loading repositories:
Fedora 42 - x86_64 - Updates 100% | 27.4 KiB/s | 6.2 KiB | 00m00s
Repositories loaded.
Nothing to do.
fedora@fedora:~$ sudo dnf install @lxqt-desktop-environment
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Package "gnome-disk-utility-46.1-3.fc43.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "abrt-desktop-2.17.8-1.fc43.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "setroubleshoot-3.3.36-2.fc43.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "system-config-language-3.5.1-1.fc43.noarch" is already installed.
Package "xorg-x11-server-Xorg-21.1.21-1.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "xorg-x11-server-Xorg-21.1.21-1.fc43.x86_64" is already installed.
... [and many many more packages already installed] ...
Package "sssd-proxy-2.11.1-2.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "sssd-proxy-2.12.0-1.fc43.x86_64" is already installed.
Problem: problem with installed package
- installed package sddm-wayland-plasma-6.6.3-1.fc42.noarch conflicts with sddm-greeter-displayserver provided by sddm-wayland-miriway-25.02.1-1.fc42.noarch from fedora
- installed package sddm-wayland-plasma-6.6.3-1.fc43.noarch conflicts with sddm-greeter-displayserver provided by sddm-wayland-miriway-25.02.1-1.fc42.noarch from fedora
- package sddm-wayland-plasma-6.6.3-1.fc42.noarch from updates conflicts with sddm-greeter-displayserver provided by sddm-wayland-miriway-25.02.1-1.fc42.noarch from fedora
- package sddm-wayland-miriway-25.02.1-1.fc42.noarch from fedora conflicts with sddm-greeter-displayserver provided by sddm-wayland-plasma-6.3.4-2.fc42.noarch from fedora
- conflicting requests
You can try to add to command line:
--allowerasing to allow removing of installed packages to resolve problems
--skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages
fedora@fedora:~$
I have not tried --allowerasing because I don’t want to risk loosing access to KDE or MATE since only on KDE updates go without errors and only on MATE the pc is reasonably usable and responsive.
Just that you know, this spins have all live iso’s which you can test before installing.
Building upon a slow Destop makes no sense. Test what you like and reinstall just with this Desktop you want to run it.
Thanks for fast response! Yeah I might try iso first and downloading it right now although sometimes things behave somewhat different from iso and real install. Here is output from dnf repolist:
repo id repo name
fedora Fedora 42 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 42 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Free
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Free - Updates
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Nonfree
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Nonfree - Updates
updates Fedora 42 - x86_64 - Updates
That is true. On the Live ISO there is a load of default software which is working for a big range of Hardware.
While with the installer you have to activate/install it separate.
The Live ISO’s serve to chose the right desktop. Making adjustments is part of the install process.
You can make any request you like as long as you try to put it on the right place. So can you find the right software to install afterwards. As good as yor requests are, as good is the help here
Best is if you try the F44 version directly. The stable version will be released soon (next week) if there are no blocker bugs.
There is nothing unusual with your repositories. F42 still came with x11 preinstalled. And now if you install an older spin, it will get conflicts.
This was F40 KDE which was not used and updated for some time, then I updated it to 41, 42, 43 and when all was fine and clear I added mate desktop and now trying to add lxqt.
Try to follow the manual below to debug your upgrade. If repolist shows F43 Repositories only, you might not get the errors again. I not realized that you have a mix of version
then sudo dnf update and it said it has nothing to do, then:
sudo dnf repolist
repo id repo name
fedora Fedora 43 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 43 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 43 - Free
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 43 - Free - Updates
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 43 - Nonfree
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 43 - Nonfree - Updates
updates
so it looks like thing with Fedora 42 repos is solved, then:
sudo dnf install @lxqt-desktop-environment
Problem: problem with installed package
- installed package sddm-wayland-plasma-6.6.3-1.fc42.noarch conflicts with sddm-greeter-displayserver provided by sddm-wayland-miriway-25.10-1.fc43.noarch from fedora
- installed package sddm-wayland-plasma-6.6.3-1.fc43.noarch conflicts with sddm-greeter-displayserver provided by sddm-wayland-miriway-25.10-1.fc43.noarch from fedora
- package sddm-wayland-plasma-6.6.3-1.fc43.noarch from updates conflicts with sddm-greeter-displayserver provided by sddm-wayland-miriway-25.10-1.fc43.noarch from fedora
- package sddm-wayland-miriway-25.10-1.fc43.noarch from fedora conflicts with sddm-greeter-displayserver provided by sddm-wayland-plasma-6.4.5-4.fc43.noarch from fedora
- conflicting requests
- installed package sddm-wayland-plasma-6.6.3-1.fc42.noarch conflicts with sddm-greeter-displayserver provided by sddm-wayland-miriway-25.12-1.fc43.noarch from updates
- installed package sddm-wayland-plasma-6.6.3-1.fc43.noarch conflicts with sddm-greeter-displayserver provided by sddm-wayland-miriway-25.12-1.fc43.noarch from updates
- package sddm-wayland-miriway-25.12-1.fc43.noarch from updates conflicts with sddm-greeter-displayserver provided by sddm-wayland-plasma-6.6.3-1.fc43.noarch from updates
- package sddm-wayland-miriway-25.12-1.fc43.noarch from updates conflicts with sddm-greeter-displayserver provided by sddm-wayland-plasma-6.4.5-4.fc43.noarch from fedora
So this is looks not exactly the same but similar as first message for this problem. I’ll do restart and report if that made some difference.
However I’m not sure that LXQt will coexist easily with KDE even when you resolve this, because it does seem like sddm-wayland-plasma and sddm-wayland-miriway conflict even when we’re only looking at fc43 packages.
Looks like this is going to remove kde? I would like to avoid that if possible. And he had problem with upgrade (to f41) and my upgrade went well (apart from some f42 remaining packages). He had kde, gnome and lxqt run fine and then could not upgrade to f41 until he deleted kde. Now I wonder if it is at all possible to run kde and lxqt on f41+.
