Aw: Re: Aw: Re: cannot reinstall gnome-shell

Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2026 at 7:29 PM

From: "Samuel Sieb" <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Aw: Re: cannot reinstall gnome-shell

On 7/2/26 2:42 AM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:
> *Sent: *Thursday, July 2, 2026 at 10:19 AM
> *From: *"Samuel Sieb" <[email protected]>
> *To: *"Community support for Fedora users" <[email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: cannot reinstall gnome-shell
> On 7/2/26 12:24 AM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:
> > *Sent: *Thursday, July 2, 2026 at 12:01 AM
> > *From: *"Samuel Sieb" <[email protected]>
> > *To: *[email protected]
> > *Subject: *Re: Aw: Re: cannot reinstall gnome-shell
> > On 7/1/26 11:46 AM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:
> > > *Sent: *Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 7:12 PM
> > > *From: *"Samuel Sieb" <[email protected]>
> > > *To: *[email protected]
> > > *Subject: *Re: cannot reinstall gnome-shell
> > > 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.
> >
> > > Not sure, last upgrade (fc42 to fc44), I removed the gnome-frippery to
> > > be able to upgrade (without using the option --allowerasing which I
> will
> > > do next time). The gnome-shell rmy was upgraded. This is why I am
> trying
> > > to understand. Be able to run startx, and possibly to run frippery. I
> > > what to be able to make a step back (gnome-frippery which requires
> > > gnome-rmy) if necessary (in fc42 and fc44)
> >
> > I don't understand. Did you upgrade to F44 or not? You're showing F42
> > versions.
> >
> >
> > Sorry for the confusion.
> > I have several configurations. Only one has been upgrade to fc44. The
> > other ones are still fc42.
> > I want to clarify all the issues before "final" upgrade.
>
> On the one that has been upgraded, can you start gnome-shell from the
> console?
> From the console? In text mode? Without running startx?

Yes. You will never be able to use startx to start Gnome.

This correct, but as I already mentioned, I do not find my usual graphics environment.

This is probably because frippery is not installed properly.

I still have gnome-shell-frippery-48.2-1.noarch, which is not the version for fedora 44.

The update failed

Transaction failed: Signature verification failed.
Public key "file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rmy" is already present, not importing.
OpenPGP check for package "gnome-shell-50.3-1.rmy1.fc44.x86_64" (/var/cache/libdnf5/frippery-a6c2de037ec9e37d/packages/gnome-shell-50.3-1.rmy1.fc44.x86_64.rpm) from repo "frippery" has failed: Public key is not installed.

I have still have gnome-shell (i.e. not rmy)

What do you recommend?

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