Re: cannot reinstall gnome-shell

Samuel Sieb <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jul 2026 10:12:27 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/1/26 8:21 AM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:
> Doing dnf reinstall gnome-shell, I get
> Failed to resolve the transaction:
> Installed packages for argument 'gnome-shell' are not available in 
> repositories in the same version, available versions: gnome- 
> shell-48.0-1.fc42.x86_64,gnome-shell-48.8-1.fc42.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
> Is there a way to force the reinstall?

I thought you were upgrading to F44.  That will take care of it.
You might need to use "--allowerasing".  Just check the list of removed 
packages to make sure it's not removing anything critical.

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