Unable to install dnf-automatic

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$ sudo dnf list installed dnf-automatic
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Available packages
dnf-automatic.noarch 4.21.1-1.fc41 fedora

$ sudo dnf install dnf-automatic
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Nothing to do.

dnf-automatic is listed as available and yet it won’t install. I’m not really sure what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’m running fedora workstation 41 and recently upgraded from fedora 40. I tried the post upgrade tasks but they didn’t seem to help.

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sudo dnf install dnf5-plugin-automatic --allowerasing
sudo tee /etc/dnf/automatic.conf << EOF > /dev/null
[commands]
apply_updates = yes
EOF
sudo systemctl enable dnf5-automatic.timer --now

See also: Automatic Command — dnf5 documentation

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