I’m trying to install system updates on my gaming PC, which runs on Nobara 38. Typically I’d accomplish this in the command line by issuing dnf upgrade, but it refuses to update because doing so would remove the protected package nobara-amdgpu-config. Trying --skip-broken produces the same result.

How do I get past this issue or work around it so that I can install updates?

Command line output:

[yo_scottie_oh@nobara ~]$ sudo dnf upgrade
Last metadata expiration check: 0:33:19 ago on Sat 06 Apr 2024 05:57:10 PM EDT.
Error: 
 Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: nobara-amdgpu-config
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
[yo_scottie_oh@nobara ~]$ sudo dnf upgrade --skip-broken
Last metadata expiration check: 0:33:42 ago on Sat 06 Apr 2024 05:57:10 PM EDT.
Error: 
 Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: nobara-amdgpu-config
[yo_scottie_oh@nobara ~]$ sudo dnf update nobara-login
[sudo] password for scott: 
Last metadata expiration check: 0:43:46 ago on Sat 06 Apr 2024 05:57:10 PM EDT.
Error: 
 Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: nobara-amdgpu-config
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
[yo_scottie_oh@nobara ~]$ nobara-sync
# Option “-x” is deprecated and might be removed in a later version of gnome-terminal.
# Use “-- ” to terminate the options and put the command line to execute after it.
[yo_scottie_oh@nobara ~]$ 

EDIT: I’m still attempting to solve this on my own. Trying solutions found in this Super User thread and this Reddit thread, which points to this documentation on the Nobara project site.

EDIT 2: Issuing nobara-sync seems to have done the trick. The Nobara project documentation that I linked to above explains why they recommend nobara-sync instead of dnf upgrade.