Although many Fedora KDE users install their machines via the KDE live installer, there are many other people who do installs differently. I tend to download the Fedora Server edition, install a minimal install, and then build my desktop up from there. But as I was generating some Fedora statistics, I wondered if my own machines were being counted. Turns out they weren't. Well, they were being counted, but as Fedora Servers. Figuring I'm not the only person doing what I do, I decided to write this quick writeup.
Check how your machine is being counted: rpm -qa | grep fedora-release-identity This shows how your machine is showing up on Fedora's CountMe. If you are running KDE and want to be counted, it should be fedora-release-identity-kde If it isn't, proceed to the next step.
If you want to be counted as running Fedora KDE, do the following dnf -y install fedora-release-kde fedora-release-identity-kde --allowerasing The --allowerasing is important. A Fedora system is only allowed one fedora-release-identity package installed at a time, and it needs to erase the one that is originally installed.
Hopes this helps Troy
I usually install Fedore with the "netinstall" iso and then pick KDE and the other stuff I need. Your rpm command reported: fedora-release-identity-basic-39-36.noarch but now after the "dnf" is: fedora-release-identity-kde-39-30.noarch
Thanks, I like being counted as KDE user!
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