Installing Cinnamon on f21 fails with dependency problems

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:00:29 -0500, Alex Regan wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a fedora21 workstation install with gnome3, and trying to replace 
> the desktop with Cinnamon.
> 
> Running 'yum groupinstall "Cinnamon Desktop"' results in the following
> 
> # yum groupinstall "Cinnamon Desktop"
> [package list trimmed...]
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package blas.x86_64 0:3.5.0-10.fc21 will be installed
> ---> Package hawtjni-runtime.noarch 0:1.10-3.fc21 will be installed
> ---> Package jansi-native.x86_64 0:1.5-8.fc21 will be installed
> --> Processing Conflict: fedora-release-workstation-21-2.noarch 
> conflicts fedora-release-nonproduct
> --> Processing Conflict: fedora-release-nonproduct-21-2.noarch conflicts 
> fedora-release-workstation
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: fedora-release-nonproduct conflicts with 
> fedora-release-workstation-21-2.noarch
> Error: fedora-release-workstation conflicts with 
> fedora-release-nonproduct-21-2.noarch
>   You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>   You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> 
> Any ideas how to proceed? It's not normal to skip-broken, so I thought I 
> would see if there was a more common problem here...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F21_bugs#Installation_of_.27environment_groups.27_fails_due_to_conflicts_between_fedora-release_packages