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Prevent Fedora from downgrading Synergy 3

Updated

Written for Synergy 3 (v3.7.2), checked 3 October 2026.

Product: Synergy 3
Operating system: Fedora

Update to the latest Synergy 3, and if you added exclude=synergy to stop the downgrade, remove it. Current Synergy 3 packages for Fedora are marked as newer than the synergy package in Fedora's own repositories, so Fedora updates no longer replace Synergy 3.

Older Synergy 3 packages didn't have this mark, so Fedora treated them as older than its own package and replaced or removed Synergy 3 when updating.

If Synergy 3 has already been downgraded or removed

  1. Remove the version that replaced it: 
    sudo dnf remove synergy
  2. Download the latest Synergy 3 for Fedora from the download page.
  3. Install it, using the file name you downloaded (the download page shows the full command): 
    sudo dnf install ~/Downloads/<file name>.rpm

If you added exclude=synergy

The exclude also blocks Synergy 3 updates, so remove it:

  1. Open /etc/dnf/dnf.conf as root, for example with sudo nano /etc/dnf/dnf.conf.
  2. Delete the line exclude=synergy under [main].
  3. Save the file.

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