How do I uninstall software when Software says:
You’ll probably get better error messages from using dnf directly from the command line. sudo dnf remove <package>
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If you are using Fedora 43 then it was not working at first. I had the same issue until the last updates earlier this week and now for me it is working in software.As Steve posted dnf remove also works well.
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Sure thanks. How do I find out the name of the package?
gnome-software
That’s unhelpful.
Can you make a bug report on bugzilla.redhat.com? This error message is incredibly bad and doesn’t tell user anything. It should be improved.
And about the name of the package, you can search the name of the app you want to remove via dnf search. It should tell you the exact name.
Perhaps a case of misintepretation:
I think John means “how do I uninstall software (generically)?”, while Mat read “how do I uninstall Gnome Software?”
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thanks. is it possible to get a list of stuff i installed using software? I don’t want to uninstall linux-kernel by mistake.
Don’t worry, DNF will not uninstall your running kernel.
For things installed with software since it still uses dnf4:
dnf4 rq --userinstalled --qf '%{name}%{evr} %{reason}' | awk '$2 ~ /user/' | column -t
For things installed with dnf5
dnf rq --userinstalled --qf '%{full_nevra} %{reason}\n' | awk '$2 ~ /User/' | column -t
I’d suggest taking a look through:
DNF5:
DNF4: