Hi everyone!

A few days ago, I had a problem while trying to run KDE and Gnome as DE on Fedora 40. That problem was solved (see crosspost), but now, I can’t update Fedora anymore as it says “the transaction did not complete” and I can’t install or uninstall anything as it says I don’t have space on my disk (which is not true).

Does anyone have an idea what to do?

Edit: apparently dnf clean and dnf clean all solved the problem, so thank you everyone as I was kind of panicking when I thought about all the work involved into having my perfect install again.

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Hi everyone!

Today I tried to install KDE alongside Gnome to give it a try on Fedora on something else than a virtual machine.

For a reason I can’t understand, the terminal couldn’t finish the installation of KDE as something failed. Despite all of this, all the KDE apps were installed and Plasma is appearing as an option on the login screen under Gnome and Gnome Classic. Still I couldn’t launch KDE plasma and nothing was happening after typing my login.

I took it as a sign that KDE isn’t for me, especially because I’m 99% happy with Gnome.

So I removed KDE via the terminal and the remaining apps via the software center. Sadly, there is one app called “Centre de bienvenue” or “Welcome center” from KDE that I can’t remove. Nothing is happening when I try removing it.

I tried removing it via the terminal, but when I type “dnf list installed” I can’t find it as there are too many packages. Could anyone help me?

I also tried « dnf list installed » with the words « welcome », « bienvenue », « kde » and « plasma ».

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
    3·
    5 months ago

    sudo dnf clean?

    Otherwise you’ll need to start cleaning out software your not using and/or resizing your disk partitions.

    Also, check the size of the files in the /var/log directory, you may be able to shrink or delete them.

          • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
            2·
            5 months ago

            That screenshot shows the dnf clean working as intended

            does a dnf update still not work?

            • Dariusmiles2123OP
              2·
              5 months ago

              Well, now everything seems to work!

              So thanks a lot, even if I still don’t really understand what the problem was.

              Reinstalling everything would have been a nightmare so I’m really happy everything works.

              • CameronDev@programming.dev
                2·
                5 months ago

                The dnf clean deleted old downloaded packages. You will probably hit disk space issues again soon, so I suggest you resize your root partition at some stage if possible. Use a gparted livecd.

                • Dariusmiles2123OP
                  1·
                  5 months ago

                  I’ll have a look into this at one point.

                  But then I might be dumb but I don’t understand why everywhere I was checking there seemed to be free space (CLI and GUI).

                  Such things are a bit frightening when you think that using Linux is way easier than Windows and then you run into these issues.

                  • CameronDev@programming.dev
                    1·
                    5 months ago

                    Windows can have the same problem when you run out of space, but it will at least give you a helpful UI to clean everything up.

                    Its not clear to me either why it appeared as if there was free space, but it might be the btrfs/df incompatibility the other poster raised.

                    Good luck, and reach out if there are further issues :)