Updating installed applications using Software>Updates>Download

I have replaced Windows 10 with Fedora 42. Here is my computer spec:

System Details Report


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  • Date generated: 2025-07-22 13:47:13

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC
  • Memory: 6.0 GiB
  • Processor: AMD E2-1800 APU with Radeon™ HD Graphics × 2
  • Graphics: AMD PALM
  • Disk Capacity: 750.2 GB

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: F.26
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 48
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.14.0-63.fc42.x86_64

When I looked at the applications needing updates using Software>Updates it showed 24 applications needed updating. Selecting the Download button after a couple of minutes produced the following error message.

Error running transaction:

file /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-network-generator from install of systemd-networkd-257.7-1.fc42.x86_64
conflicts with file from package systemd-udev-257.3-7.fc42.x86_64

file /usr/share/man/man8/systemd-network-generator.service.8.gz from install of systemd-networkd-257.7-1.fc42.x86_64
conflicts with file from package systemd-udev-257.3-7.fc42.x86_64

file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 from install of nvidia-gpu-firmware-20250708-1.fc42.noarch
conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250311-1.fc42.noarch

file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104 from install of nvidia-gpu-firmware-20250708-1.fc42.noarch
conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250311-1.fc42.noarch

file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106 from install of nvidia-gpu-firmware-20250708-1.fc42.noarch
conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250311-1.fc42.noarch

file /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107 from install of nvidia-gpu-firmware-20250708-1.fc42.noarch
conflicts with file from package linux-firmware-20250311-1.fc42.noarch

file /usr/bin/evince-previewer from install of evince-48.1-1.fc42.x86_64
conflicts with file from package evince-previewer-48.0-1.fc42. x86_64

Is this something I need to sorry about?
Thanks

Another user had a similar problem recently - I don’t know if we got to the bottom of the root cause, but the steps they took to solve it are in this post: Dnf upgrade is failing because of conflicts in packages - #4 by jkbhu85