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Yeah I kind of realised that the instructions assumed I had already upgraded, will try to keep track of new updates better in the future. So for sake of completion here's how I solved it in the end:
file /usr/lib64/libopenh264.so.2.3.1 conflicts between attempted installs of openh264-2.3.1-2.fc38.x86_64 and noopenh264-0.1.0~openh264_2.3.1-2.fc38.x86_64
sudo dnf -v system-upgrade download --releasever=38 --allowerasing --exclude=openh264.x86_64
--best --allowerasing'
and see what else breaks:Now it's trying to either partial upgrade OR delete your desktop. Your system is fucked.
It un-fucked itself thankfully, I haven't done anything to resolve that issue. But when I ran the update today it went well with several new packages. Which means Nobara or Fedora pushed some changes to packages in the repos.
Every time you're excluding something you're excluding updating a package, while updating all the others. Then if the new packages depend on the newer version of the package you didn't upgrade by excluding it, things break. That's what's happened here. Every time you use exclude to upgrade something you're essentially breaking your system worse. That's what the other person means by "partial upgrading"
And now that message says it's going to completely remove your desktop environment so you're gonna have no desktop, just a cli shell.
At this point the easiest thing would probably be to back up your home directory and whatever else you want to keep and just reinstall the system. Any other process to try and fix it is going to require more trouble and time than it would take to just reinstall unfortunately. There may not even be a way to successfully unbreak your system.
I saw that error when I first installed nobara. Googled it, and the solution was just to not use dnf to update, but nobara-sync instead.
Yeah I forgot to mention that I'll not be using dnf manually but rely on nobara-sync. But I must stress that I already did that before this issue, BUT I followed advice on nobaras own website where the solution was to use
dnf
and I still ended up with this problem. The real issue was still my own though, I should have upgraded to Nobara 38 before trying the workarounds, since 37 isn't supported any more.