On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:13:51 -0700
ToddAndMargo via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
I have yet to figure out "group reinstall". The
manual page is not being a lot of help.
This is what I have so far:
List:
# dnf group list | grep -i xfce
Xfce Desktop
Install:
# dnf groupinstall 'XFCE Desktop'
Reinstall: Note, not working as of 2022-07-19
# dnf groupreinstall 'XFCE Desktop'
Errors I get back:
# dnf groupreinstall 'XFCE Desktop'
No such command: groupreinstall. Please use /usr/bin/dnf --help
It could be a DNF plugin command, try: "dnf install
'dnf-command(groupreinstall)'"
# dnf group reinstall 'XFCE Desktop'
Invalid groups sub-command, use: summary, list, info, remove,
install, upgrade, mark.
# dnf groupinstall 'XFCE Desktop(groupreinstall)'
Last metadata expiration check: 2:03:15 ago on Tue 19 Jul 2022
10:08:27 AM PDT.
Module or Group 'XFCE Desktop(groupreinstall)' is not available.
Error: Nothing to do.
-T
My bad, I didn't check the group reinstall command, thought it would
just be analogous to install and reinstall. You've already done what I
would do. Is there a way to get packages from the Xfce Desktop group, or
that you have installed? If you can get that list, you could put it in
a file and run a
#! /bin/bash
dnf reinstall \
pkg1 \
pkg2\
...
pkg??
I was playing around with this trying to get a list of packages, and I
used the command
dnf group info 'Xfce Desktop'
and received a list of groups that are in that group. There were
many optional xfce groups. The one you want is probably one of them.
If you then do a
dnf group info 'Applications for the Xfce Desktop'
it will give you a list of the packages for that group.
That doesn't get you a group reinstall, but it allows you to reinstall
select packages.