Jerry, Thanks for your response!
Yeah.. I know what you say about rawhide... who wants a nice well-behaved bug proof system? As a long time Systems Administrator, my thoughts are to report oddities or problems so they can, at least, be fixed... and I have seen quite a few real doozies. Oh well. Again, thanks for your response. Regards, George... p.s., so what does the gnome-shell(api) mean? On Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at 03:14:18 PM PST, Jerry James <[email protected]> wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM George R Goffe via users <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having some difficulty with dnf and gnome-shell. I'm not sure what I'm > supposed to do at this point. What is (api) supposed to mean? > > ANY help/hints/tips/suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. > > Best regards, > > George... > > Here's what I'm seeing: > > rpm -q gnome-shell > gnome-shell-50~beta-3.fc45.x86_64 > > dnf reinstall gnome-shell > > Updating and loading repositories: > Repositories loaded. > Package Arch Version Repository > Size > Reinstalling: > gnome-shell x86_64 0:50~beta-3.fc45 rawhide > 14.2 MiB > replacing gnome-shell x86_64 0:50~beta-3.fc45 rawhide > 14.2 MiB > > Transaction Summary: > Reinstalling: 1 package > Replacing: 1 package > > Total size of inbound packages is 2 MiB. Need to download 0 B. > After this operation, 0 B extra will be used (install 14 MiB, remove 14 MiB). > Is this ok [y/N]: y > [1/1] gnome-shell-0:50~beta-3.fc45.x86_64 100% | 0.0 B/s | 0.0 B > | 00m00s > >>> Already downloaded > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [1/1] Total 100% | 0.0 B/s | 0.0 B > | 00m00s > Running transaction > Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed. > - (gnome-shell(api) = 45 or gnome-shell(api) = 46 or gnome-shell(api) = 47 >or gnome-shell(api) = 48 or gnome-shell(api) = 49) is needed by (installed) >gnome-shell-extension-freon-2:58-5.fc44.noarch > - (gnome-shell(api) = 45 or gnome-shell(api) = 46 or gnome-shell(api) = 47 >or gnome-shell(api) = 48 or gnome-shell(api) = 49) is needed by (installed) >gnome-shell-extension-argos-3^20250327git1326404-6.fc44.noarch It means that gnome-shell-extension-argos and gnome-shell-extension-freon have not been built against the version of gnome-shell available in Rawhide. Both currently fail to build. See: https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/gnome-shell-extension-argos https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/gnome-shell-extension-freon If you're going to play with Rawhide, you have to expect breakages like this. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
