On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 10:26 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 19:25 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS > wrote: > > I'm about ready to run "dnf erase *mate*" and try re-installing > > MATE > > from scratch from the GNOME3 desktop. Is that possible without > > ripping > > the heart out of C8 by deleting other critical packages? > > I've attached a capture of "dnf erase *mate*" that shows the 104 > packages that would be removed. It looks safe enough, but if there's > a > a better way to fix the problem I'd rather try that. Having gotten no responses, I'm about ready to plunge ahead and try removing MATE v1.22 with dnf, then do a fresh reinstall of all packages. However, I'm unsure about the safest way to proceed. If you look at the listing attached to my last message, you'll see three different groups of packages: Removing: xxx Removing dependent packages: xxx Removing unused dependencies: xxx I don't understand the meaning of the last group of "unused dependencies". Is there a manual, more surgical way to remove packages that won't rip the overall CentOS 8.1 installation apart? For example, is there a way (perhaps a for loop) that deletes only the first two package groups? All of those are from the COPR repository. Removing them should cause no problems. But the third group (unused) includes several @AppStream, @epel, and even one @PowerTools package. Any dnf gurus please weigh in here. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL