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Accidentally uninstalled GNOME on Fedora 39
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I am currently using sway. Before doing system updates I thought "meh, let's yank GNOME".

This uninstalled GDM too, which I didn't know at the point. After a reboot, I just had a tty. Additionally, this also doesn't start NetworkManager, meaning you won't have an internet connection.

To solve it, I did the following:

Networking

sudo systemctl start NetworkManager
nmcli connection up SSID

Restore packages

Run history and see how far you need to go back. Remember the ID of the point in time you want to restore to.

dnf history | head -l 20

Run rollback:

sudo dnf history rollback ID

Re-enable graphical environment and gdm:

sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target
sudo systemsctl enable gdm.service
restart

Upon reboot, the usual login screen will show up and start sway again.

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