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I am an idiot.
I was browsing the internet as was told to install media codecs. I followed this guide and ran the below
sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-\*,good-\*,base} gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel
It installed around 500MB worth packages which didn’t help my issue so I ran the same command again with a remove not an install.
This removed ~ 2GB worth of packages INCLUDING my desktop environment (Cinnamon)
I have the fedora 36 live ISO I used to install the system.
How can I reinstall all packages from the live ISO onto my broken install?
Or any other fixes
FYI I tried to run
sudo dnf history undo 25
where 25 was my transaction id but it failed and couldn’t reinstall anything.
I have also rebooted into the recovery environment and tried to run
sudo dnf -y group install “Cinnamon Desktop”
which appeared to work until i said yes install at which point it couldn’t find the mirror.
I tried to run nmcli but it doesn’t work despite NetworkManager still supposedly being installed.
I don’t want to reinstall and wipe my existing fedora install as it is a dual boot windows system and I have licensed software on both OSes it would be a drama to fix.