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(I am a beginner) So I recently installed a fresh version of Fedora KDE Plasma after switching from GNOME Fedora because my understanding is that gaming is a bit better supported with KDE. (I switched because Cyberpunk wouldnt let me enable HDR even though it was on in GNOME settings and am on the journey of using gamescope and all that with this KDE install)

So the first thing I noticed is Discover absolutely WILL NOT let me download RPM versions of anything Flathub only even though I do have all third party repositories enabled. On GNOME I could just toggle a switch right on the software page to select which version of an application I wanted to install but no such luck here which is a bit of a bummer.

Normally I would use flatpaks but Steams flatpak requires me changing the udev rules for input and I dont think Im ready for all that quite yet so wanted the RPM version which I installed using the official fedora documentation to do so (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/gaming/proton/) and I did all of that and it did install however I encountered the errors in the pictures above and my questions are:

  1. Can I just ignore this with no issues to my system?

and

  1. Is this somehow related to KDE not showing me third party repository options?
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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

in your shoes: i would take a look at the file and delete it if it's empty or if you don't have a need for openvpn.

be warned, though, that openvpn might be a dependency for something else; so it may be smarter to rename it and see what breaks. (then restore it if it turns out to break something needful).