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 ».

  • @[email protected]
    3•6 months ago

    Fedora is systems, right? The easiest way to gain some (temporary) space is to clean out the journal and whatever logs you don’t need. It can grow quite big.

    sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=100M

    Will shrink it to something manageable. This will buy you some time to clean up until the journal grows again.

    Also, clearing the apt cache will probably help free up some root partition space

    sudo apt clean

    Your root partition where packages are stored and all the logs and transactional databases might be full even if your home directory has tons of free space.

    • lemmyvoreEnglish
      7•6 months ago

      I don’t think cleaning the apt cache will help on Fedora. 🙂 But the journal tip is good, just had a look at mine and it was a whole GB wasted.

      • @[email protected]
        2•6 months ago

        Duh… Fedora not Ubuntu/Debian/Et al.

        sudo dnf clean

        It’s been a while since I have run a redhat derivative… I think that was either the last iteration of mandrake or the first iteration of mandriva.

        And the journal isn’t garbage persay, it’s a bunch of logs and whatnot that can be useful in certain diagnostics… Especially with op running all those snap packages. But in this case, clearing it is probably a better option then not clearing it