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Convert Fedora Workstation to Fedora Server

So, you installed Fedora Workstation on your server and ended up not using the desktop environment after all and want to convert to Fedora Server without doing a re-installation? It's very easy to do:

  1. Boot to console: systemctl set-default multi-user.target
  2. Change identity: dnf swap fedora-release-identity-workstation.noarch fedora-release-identity-server.noarch

It might take an update of the kernel before the server calls itself "Fedora Server".

While it is possible to completely remove a desktop environment, things could break:

  • sudo dnf remove "@Basic Desktop"
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