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 …

And just so you know, both MATE and XFCE are maintained and in development. I don’t know about MATE, but XFCE is even in a transition to be wayland compatible. And at least XFCE has the latest packages in fedora (for example, Thunar, the XFCE file manager, is already in version 4.20.8).

It looks like there was a problem with your 42->43 upgrade, because your dnf repolist is showing all Fedora 42 repos and not 43.

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 :wink: [image] Upgrading Fedora Linux Using DNF System Plugin dnf system-upgrade command (embedded into DNF5 a…

@pg-tips I followed above page from ilikelinux and did this: sudo dnf install remove-retired-packages remove-retired-packages it removed several things and among them: Removing fedora-release-identity-kde: Package providing the identity for Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition Reason of retirement:…

After restart nothing changed so still there is some problem with packages when installing LXQt.

You still have a mixture of Fedora 42 and Fedora 43 packages: - installed package sddm-wayland-plasma-6.6.3-1.fc42.noarch - installed package sddm-wayland-plasma-6.6.3-1.fc43.noarch However I’m not sure that LXQt will coexist easily with KDE even when you resolve this, because it does seem like s…

Try this: Remember to change the upgrade version to F43 [image] Sddm package conflicts while trying to upgrade to Fedora 41 via dnf Ask Fedora OK I got past this. It was bit of a hack, but I removed the KDE group. After I did that I also had to remove a coupl…

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 i…

Looks like the upgrade 42 → 43 did abort at some point. Check the output of sudo dnf distro-sync --releasever=43 --refresh --assumeno

Here it is: Updating and loading repositories: RPM Fusion for Fedora 43 - Nonfree 100% | 3.0 KiB/s | 9.0 KiB | 00m03s RPM Fusion for Fedora 43 - Nonfree - Updates …

uname -r or ls /boot/vmlinuz* and rpm -qa wine\* there were issues upgrading to F43 with wine installed. I think that has not been resolved.

F43 KDE install of LXQt gives sddm-wayland-plasma conflict with sddm-greeter-displayserver

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ilikelinux (ilikelinux) April 7, 2026, 5:34pm 13

Try this:
Remember to change the upgrade version to F43

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F43 KDE install of LXQt gives sddm-wayland-plasma conflict with sddm-greeter-displayserver

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