Problem Due to packaging problems, attempts to upgrade a system with wine packages installed to Fedora 43 will likely fail to proceed. The issue is related to wine-core and the error will likely look similar to this: Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed. – file /usr/lib64/wine/i386-windows…

An update has been released to fix this issue in Fedora Linux 43. After you update your system in your usual way (and possibly reboot), you should no longer be affected by this problem. If the problem persists, please start a new discussion topic and we’ll help figure out what’s still wrong.

Systems with wine installed cannot be upgraded to Fedora 43

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kparal (Kamil Páral) October 29, 2025, 4:42pm 6

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Systems with wine installed cannot be upgraded to Fedora 43

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