I’ve used your command to view (what is hopefully) the full, actual list of groups, and again I don’t see a “GNOME Desktop Environment” group. (see paste below). At the end I even tried installing it anyway (in case it actually exists, but I’m still not getting the full list even with “hidden”) and it produces the error included at the end of the pasted output. It appears that “GNOME” or its alias “gnome-desktop” are the only viable group names for it, in Fedora.
Why are groups “hidden” at all? And why such an important, fundamental software system like “GNOME”? (Again, this group is hidden in other Fedora variants as well, though apparently not for other Red Hat OSes.)
It appears that this forum has inexplicably started to refuse links to Pastebin, so I’ll paste the results here.
Loaded plugins: builddep, changelog, config-manager, copr, debug, debuginfo-install, download, generate_completion_cache, needs-restarting, playground, repoclosure, repodiff, repograph, repomanage, reposync
DNF version: 4.2.2
cachedir: /var/cache/dnf
Unknown configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-modular.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Unknown configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-modular.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Unknown configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-modular.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
repo: using cache for: fedora-modular
not found other for: Fedora Modular 30 - x86_64
not found deltainfo for: Fedora Modular 30 - x86_64
not found updateinfo for: Fedora Modular 30 - x86_64
fedora-modular: using metadata from Sat 27 Apr 2019 04:39:22 AM CDT.
repo: using cache for: updates-modular
not found other for: Fedora Modular 30 - x86_64 - Updates
not found deltainfo for: Fedora Modular 30 - x86_64 - Updates
updates-modular: using metadata from Mon 29 Apr 2019 09:44:19 PM CDT.
repo: using cache for: updates
not found other for: Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates
not found modules for: Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates
updates: using metadata from Tue 30 Apr 2019 07:36:44 PM CDT.
repo: using cache for: fedora
not found other for: Fedora 30 - x86_64
not found modules for: Fedora 30 - x86_64
not found deltainfo for: Fedora 30 - x86_64
not found updateinfo for: Fedora 30 - x86_64
fedora: using metadata from Sat 27 Apr 2019 04:42:56 AM CDT.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:51:25 ago on Wed 01 May 2019 10:35:14 AM CDT.
Completion plugin: Generating completion cache...
Available Environment Groups:
Fedora Custom Operating System (custom-environment)
Minimal Install (minimal-environment)
Fedora Workstation (workstation-product-environment)
Fedora Cloud Server (cloud-server-environment)
KDE Plasma Workspaces (kde-desktop-environment)
LXDE Desktop (lxde-desktop-environment)
LXQt Desktop (lxqt-desktop-environment)
Cinnamon Desktop (cinnamon-desktop-environment)
MATE Desktop (mate-desktop-environment)
Sugar Desktop Environment (sugar-desktop-environment)
Deepin Desktop (deepin-desktop-environment)
Development and Creative Workstation (developer-workstation-environment)
Web Server (web-server-environment)
Infrastructure Server (infrastructure-server-environment)
Basic Desktop (basic-desktop-environment)
Installed Environment Groups:
Fedora Server Edition (server-product-environment)
Xfce Desktop (xfce-desktop-environment)
Installed Groups:
Administration Tools (admin-tools)
base-x (base-x)
Core (core)
Dial-up Networking Support (dial-up)
Fonts (fonts)
GNOME (gnome-desktop)
Guest Desktop Agents (guest-desktop-agents)
Hardware Support (hardware-support)
Headless Management (headless-management)
Input Methods (input-methods)
Multimedia (multimedia)
Common NetworkManager Submodules (networkmanager-submodules)
Printing Support (printing)
Python Science (python-science)
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Standard (standard)
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Available Groups:
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Critical Path (GNOME) (critical-path-gnome)
Critical Path (KDE) (critical-path-kde)
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FreeIPA Server (freeipa-server)
FTP Server (ftp-server)
Games and Entertainment (games)
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GNOME Software Development (gnome-software-development)
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[chris@xiphos ~]$ sudo dnf group install "GNOME Desktop Environment"
Fedora Modular 30 - x86_64 39 kB/s | 15 kB 00:00
Fedora Modular 30 - x86_64 - Updates 54 kB/s | 16 kB 00:00
Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates 41 kB/s | 13 kB 00:00
Fedora 30 - x86_64 48 kB/s | 14 kB 00:00
Warning: Module or Group 'GNOME Desktop Environment' does not exist.
Error: Nothing to do.