Hplip by default?

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After a fresh install of fedora 42, there is no hplip, but it was installed on its own from an update in gnome software. Considering I haven’t connected this to an hp printer its a lot of unnecessary menu space in gnome and I really don’t think it should be installed for new fedora 42 users.

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This should be fixed soon:
FEDORA-2025-0e2b89d5c7 — bugfix update for hplip — Fedora Updates System

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Awesome, thanks!

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After it is removed, will it be uninstalled with the next update or should i do it myself?

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This will require manual action:

sudo dnf autoremove

So you can as well remove it now:

sudo dnf remove hplip-gui
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How do I remove this in Silverblue? (I’m new to Linux and keen to learn).

Edit: I figured it out. For anyone reading, the command was rpm-ostree override remove hplip-gui

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This should be removed in today’s Fedora Silverblue build, so I would suggest resetting the override as it is no longer needed. See [SB42] hplip-gui was added to the base image · Issue #646 · fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker · GitHub.

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Since I am still learning to use Linux and especially Silverblue, how do i reset the override and why do I need to do it?

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Here is the official documentation on how to remove a package from the base image and how to reset the override: rpm-ostree | Client administration—Removing a base package.

In this particular case, removing the hplip-gui package is not necessary, as it is no longer in the Fedora Silverblue base image, as mentioned in the previous post.

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Got it. Thank you.

But generally speaking, why would it be necessary to do it otherwise? If a package is not going to be removed from the base?

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If for some reason you don’t want or need a package included in the base image, I think it’s fine to remove it and leave it as is.

However, if you want to remove or layer a lot of packages, it’s probably worth considering creating a custom image, but I think that’s for another topic.

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Ah I see what you mean. Got it.

Yeah I’m not going to need this HP printer app crap. Thank you for clarifying.