Fedora 41 XFCE upgraded to 42 XFCE gone

Moin,
I installed the upgrade like this:

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=42
sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot

After reboot only gnome, gnome classic and hyprland were selectable.

I did another

sudo rpmconf -a

, but there were no new configs, or everything was automatically upgraded to the new ones during the upgrade.

sudo dnf groupinstall "XFCE Desktop"
Unknown argument "groupinstall" for command "dnf5". Add “--help” to get more information about the arguments.
It could be a command provided by a plugin. Try: dnf install 'dnf5-command(groupinstall)'
sudo dnf group install "Xfce Desktop"
[sudo] Password for drbash: 
Update and load package sources:
Package sources loaded.
Failed to resolve transaction:
No match for argument: Xfce Desktop
You can try the following from the command line

Now, of course, I don’t know what to do.
Gnome is not my thing :wink:

Edit:

sudo dnf install @xfce-desktop-environment

Went, but most of it was already installed.

Transaction is executed

[1/6] Verify package files 100% | 166.0 B/s | 4.0 B | 00m00s

[2/6] Prepare transaction 100% | 11.0 B/s | 4.0 B | 00m00s

[3/6] Install ibus-table-0:1.17.11-1.fc42.noarch 100% | 59.5 MiB/s | 3.1 MiB | 00m00s

[4/6] Install ibus-table-chinese-0:1. 8.12-7.fc42.noarch 100% | 12.5 MiB/s | 38.4 KiB | 00m00s

[5/6] Install ibus-table-chinese-cangjie-0:1.8.12-7.fc42.noarch 100% | 349.6 MiB/s | 5.2 MiB | 00m00s

[6/6] Install intel-vsc-firmware-0:20250311-1.fc42.noarch 100% | 3.4 MiB/s | 7.5 MiB | 00m02s

Completed!

After that I still could not select XFCE. So I added another:

sudo dnf remove @xfce-desktop-environment

Then I rebooted and tried again:

sudo dnf install @xfce-desktop-environment

tried again.

Unfortunately, XFCE is still not in the list when you click on the cogwheel at login.

Thank you very much for your help.

There’s an update that should be out soon that will fix this, or you
could switch to lightdm:

sudo dnf install lightdm-gtk
sudo systemctl enable lightdm --force
reboot

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Thank you very much :slight_smile: