I wanted to have a DE on my system, for stability in case my wm didn’t like some things, or certain features were needed (went from i3 spin to base to my dwm), so I installed Gnome, didn’t like it uninstalled it (both times with sudo dnf install/remove group gnome-desktop) after the uninstall of all that, some gnome apps remained, so I used the still installed software center from gnome to uninstall these things and a few of them remain, but I cannot use the dnf command anymore as it returns “not found”.
So, how would I fix this? and how does fedora suck this much? why the crap would it uninstall dnf (I still have dnf4, tho idk why the crap something other than one package manager exists) when all I want to go away is gnome software?
Ok, since it seems that dnf4 is still installed, you can just:
sudo dnf4 install dnf5
That “should” get you back current (dnf at this point should be a symbolic link to dnf5)
“…other than one package manager exists…” … well, you installed Fedora 41, recently I assume, and everyone is in transition from dnf4 to dnf5. the multiple dnf versions were so that people would have a fall-back in the event that dnf5 did some unforeseen things. Now, you can’t honestly blame the fact that you kind of blew yourself up due to unfamiliarity with Fedora
In any case, removing Gnome from Fedora is a pretty thorny affair if you installed Workstation from live USB because Gnome is the default/preferred environment for Fedora. Now what you could do If you want a different experience, one with very little to no Gnome components, you could use a different spin of Fedora. Like maybe the KDE spin from here: https://fedoraproject.org/start
In any case, give Fedora a try and give yourself some time to get used to it … then you might have a slightly different view/opinion of things
To be fair, it was not Fedora than uninstalled your DNF. It was Gnome
I always use the minimal net-installer and bring in what I want from there.
I have previously had Gnome installed and removed it successfully. Maybe I already had another WM or Desktop installed.
And if you thought uninstalling Gnome was annoying, try uninstalling KDE. Want to add one package - installs heaps of other stuff - want to remove a package - removes heaps of stuff…
very true, opened an issue over on the gnome-software gitlab, I went from the i3 spin to my dmw dots from void linux. this is considerably better for my system, (no shade at void I have an old intel mac pro)
I am quite liking it now, thanks for your help, went from a spin to my preffered wm, but did a reinstall cause I don’t want to find what else it messed up later, and have to deal with that then
