How do i swap from XFCE to Gnome in Fedora 41? Following the documentation’s steps, when i run
dnf environment list --available | grep desktop
the output is
basic-desktop-environment Basic Desktop no
budgie-desktop-environment Budgie Desktop no
cinnamon-desktop-environment Cinnamon Desktop no
cosmic-desktop-environment COSMIC Desktop no
deepin-desktop-environment Deepin Desktop no
i3-desktop-environment i3 desktop no
kde-desktop-environment KDE Plasma Workspaces no
lxde-desktop-environment LXDE Desktop no
lxqt-desktop-environment LXQt Desktop no
mate-desktop-environment MATE Desktop no
miraclewm-desktop-environment Miracle WM Desktop Environment no
phosh-desktop-environment Phosh Desktop no
sugar-desktop-environment Sugar Desktop Environment no
sway-desktop-environment Sway Desktop no
xfce-desktop-environment Xfce Desktop no
gnome is not among the desktop environments listed.
Using
It doesn’t seem to be correct. It says all the packages are already installed except for two packages that are conflicting with two packages from the cachyos kernel that i have installed
There is the environment workstation-product-environment, and then there is the group gnome-desktop, which is part of the former.
Can you post the exact output, including also the command used?
Please also post the output of the following:
$ rpm -qa gnome-shell gdm
$ dnf environment list --installed
$ dnf group list --installed --hidden
When posting CLI interface outputs, please format them as preformatted text, by selecting the text pasted into the message window and formatting them as code-block, by using the </> button, or the Ctrl+e keyboard shortcut.
sudo dnf group install workstation-product-environment
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Package "sudo-1.9.15-5.p5.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "curl-8.9.1-3.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "dhcp-client-12:4.4.3-14.P1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "dnf5-5.2.12.0-2.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "bash-5.2.32-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "coreutils-9.5-11.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "e2fsprogs-1.47.1-6.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "less-668-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "openssh-clients-9.9p1-3.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "openssh-server-9.9p1-3.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "setup-2.15.0-8.fc41.noarch" is already installed.
Package "shadow-utils-2:4.15.1-12.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "util-linux-2.40.4-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "audit-4.0.3-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "basesystem-11-21.fc41.noarch" is already installed.
Package "filesystem-3.18-23.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "glibc-2.40-24.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "glibc-2.40-24.fc41.i686" is already installed.
Package "hostname-3.23-13.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "iproute-6.10.0-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "iputils-20240905-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "kbd-2.6.4-4.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "man-db-2.12.1-2.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "ncurses-6.5-2.20240629.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "parted-3.6-7.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "policycoreutils-3.7-7.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "procps-ng-4.0.4-4.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "rootfiles-8.1-37.fc41.noarch" is already installed.
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Package "dnf5-plugins-5.2.12.0-2.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
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Package "dhcp-client-12:4.4.3-14.P1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "dnsmasq-2.90-4.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
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Package "atheros-firmware-20250410-1.fc41.noarch" is already installed.
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Package "intel-audio-firmware-20250410-1.fc41.noarch" is already installed.
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Package "tar-2:1.35-4.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "sudo-1.9.15-5.p5.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "dnf5-5.2.12.0-2.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "systemd-udev-256.12-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "amd-gpu-firmware-20250410-1.fc41.noarch" is already installed.
Package "amd-ucode-firmware-20250410-1.fc41.noarch" is already installed.
Package "intel-gpu-firmware-20250410-1.fc41.noarch" is already installed.
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Package "cifs-utils-7.1-2.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "cryptsetup-2.7.5-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "ntfs-3g-2:2022.10.3-6.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "ntfsprogs-2:2022.10.3-6.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "pinentry-gnome3-1.3.1-2.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "unzip-6.0-64.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "wget2-wget-2.2.0-2.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "bash-completion-1:2.16-1.fc41.noarch" is already installed.
Package "btrfs-progs-6.12-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "cpio-2.15-2.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "dnf5-plugins-5.2.12.0-2.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "dosfstools-4.2-13.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "exfatprogs-1.2.8-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
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Package "mtr-2:0.95-10.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
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Package "sos-4.8.2-1.fc41.noarch" is already installed.
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Package "time-1.9-24.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "traceroute-3:2.1.6-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "tree-2.1.0-6.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "usbutils-017-3.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "words-3.0-46.fc41.noarch" is already installed.
Package "zip-3.0-41.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "gamemode-1.8.2-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "gamemode-1.8.2-1.fc41.i686" is already installed.
Package "policycoreutils-python-utils-3.7-7.fc41.noarch" is already installed.
Package "psmisc-23.7-3.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "qt5-qtbase-5.15.15-3.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "qt5-qtbase-gui-5.15.15-3.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "qt5-qtdeclarative-5.15.15-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
Problem: problem with installed package
- installed package cachyos-settings-1.1.8-3.fc41.x86_64 conflicts with zram-generator-defaults provided by zram-generator-defaults-1.1.2-12.fc41.noarch from fedora
- package cachyos-settings-1.1.8-3.fc41.x86_64 from copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:bieszczaders:kernel-cachyos-addons conflicts with zram-generator-defaults provided by zram-generator-defaults-1.1.2-12.fc41.noarch from fedora
- conflicting requests
You can try to add to command line:
--allowerasing to allow removing of installed packages to resolve problems
--skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages
rpm -qa gnome-shell gdm
dnf environment list --installed
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
ID Name Installed
xfce-desktop-environment Xfce Desktop yes
dnf group list --installed --hidden
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
ID Name Installed
admin-tools Administration Tools yes
anaconda-tools Anaconda tools yes
base-x base-x yes
core Core yes
desktop-accessibility Desktop accessibility yes
dial-up Dial-up Networking Support yes
fonts Fonts yes
guest-desktop-agents Guest Desktop Agents yes
hardware-support Hardware Support yes
input-methods Input Methods yes
multimedia Multimedia yes
networkmanager-submodules Common NetworkManager Submodules yes
printing Printing Support yes
sound-and-video Sound and Video yes
standard Standard yes
virtualization Virtualization yes
xfce-apps Applications for the Xfce Desktop yes
xfce-desktop Xfce yes
xfce-extra-plugins Extra plugins for the Xfce panel yes
xfce-media Multimedia support for Xfce yes
xfce-office Xfce Office yes
Looking at the errors I would suggest you either remove the CachyOS kernel, bring the system closer to the official state, maybe run a distro-sync and then try installing the workstation-product-environment again, or work around the mesa packages conflicts and just install the gnome-desktop group, which seems easier.