Re: cannot reinstall gnome-shell

On 1 Jul 2026 at 15:21, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:

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Subject:	cannot reinstall gnome-shell
Date sent:	Wed, 1 Jul 2026 15:21:01 +0000
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From:	Patrick Dupre via users <[email protected]>
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 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?

Think the version may no longer be in repo so can not be 
reinstalled. Thine it is at version 50 now.
On Fedora 44
rpm -q gnome-shell
gnome-shell-50.2-1.fc44.x86_64
On Fedora 43
rpm -q gnome-shell
gnome-shell-49.7-1.fc43.x86_64

what does dnf update gnome-shell show.

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