Just one simple question. Is it possible to install gnome 47 on fedora 40, and if so , how to do it ? thanks
Maybe.
Simple – certainly not and probably not something even an expert would tackle. Gnome has many different parts and interacts with many other parts.
Upgrading to fedora 41 is very simple and successful for most so the best choice seems to me to either remain on f40 with gnome 46 or upgrade to fedora 41 which comes with gnome 47.
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updating to 41 is too risky for me as i found out that wayland isn’t working as smoothly than xorg for some apps i’m using everyday . For example , not possible to drag and drop an image from a folder on to a chrome page used by comfyui . It simply not working and after sleep mode made glitches on comfyui and i need to restart computer. Xorg keeps me away from this .
But thanks for the answer at least i know that it isn’t a good thing to do.
I expect that now the wayland issue is known (particularly for the login loop) it will quickly be resolved. Some workarounds have already been given and seem to work for many.
I would expect that in a short time the fix(s) will be be part of the updates and so an upgrade will not see those problems. On my laptop I have not seen problems but every system is unique both on hardware and installed software.
Only clean installs will be consistent with software (and then only until the user makes software or config changes)
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I found this in another thread that seems to solve the issue. (the main workaround I have seen for most as mentioned above)
appending GSK_RENDERER=ngl to /etc/environment enables Wayland to be used again.
In context that discussion included using ngl, gl (older), or vulkan (newer) as potential values for that env variable (depending upon your system).
You may find several threads related with a quick search for ‘GSK_RENDERER’
ok will look at it and test it with wayland under fed40
Thanks
My understanding is, that value is not necessary with gnome 46 & wayland, but it may be necessary with gnome 47 & wayland after upgrading to f41. Testing on f40 would not provide any usable results.
It would seam to me that if you install gnome 47 and all its dependencies, you are already halfway running Fedora 41
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it seams that it isn’t a good idea ?
Packages and depending packages will be provided by the F41 repository, but having f40 and f41 repos enabled at the same time will end in a mess…
You could try to build Gnome 47 yourself but that will be a lot of tedious work and you won’t get any updates through package managers like dnf or Gnome Software.
I think the answer is a No. You want Gnome 47? Upgrade to F41!
If you’ve got a spare external drive, or at least a spare partition with enough space on it, you can test installing F41 on that external drive.
I did the same for one of my older machines with bare-metal Fedora installation, and noticed that F41 is failing with Wayland, so I have to assume an upgrade will also cause similar issues. Once an update will fix the issues on the external drive, I will prepare the upgrade on the main drive too.
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