NAME
dnf - DNF Command ReferenceSYNOPSIS
dnf [options] <command> [<args>...]DESCRIPTION
DNF is the next upcoming major version of YUM, a package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions. It roughly maintains CLI compatibility with YUM and defines a strict API for extensions and plugins.- •
- 0 : Operation was successful.
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- 1 : An error occurred, which was handled by dnf.
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- 3 : An unknown unhandled error occurred during operation.
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- 100: See check-update
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- 200: There was a problem with acquiring or releasing of locks.
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- alias
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- autoremove
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- check
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- check-update
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- clean
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- deplist
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- distro-sync
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- downgrade
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- group
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- help
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- history
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- info
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- install
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- list
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- makecache
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- mark
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- module
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- provides
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- reinstall
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- remove
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- repoinfo
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- repolist
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- repoquery
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- repository-packages
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- search
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- shell
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- swap
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- updateinfo
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- upgrade
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- upgrade-minimal
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- Options
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- Specifying Packages
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- Specifying Provides
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- Specifying File Provides
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- Specifying Groups
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- Specifying Transactions
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- Metadata Synchronization
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- Configuration Files Replacement Policy
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- Files
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- See Also
OPTIONS
- -4
- Resolve to IPv4 addresses only.
- -6
- Resolve to IPv6 addresses only.
- --advisory=<advisory>, --advisories=<advisory>
- Include packages corresponding to the advisory ID, Eg. FEDORA-2201-123. Applicable for the install, repoquery, updateinfo and upgrade commands.
- --allowerasing
- Allow erasing of installed packages to resolve dependencies. This option could be used as an alternative to the yum swap command where packages to remove are not explicitly defined.
- --assumeno
- Automatically answer no for all questions.
- -b, --best
- Try the best available package versions in transactions. Specifically during dnf upgrade, which by default skips over updates that can not be installed for dependency reasons, the switch forces DNF to only consider the latest packages. When running into packages with broken dependencies, DNF will fail giving a reason why the latest version can not be installed. Note that the use of the newest available version is only guaranteed for the packages directly requested (e.g. as a command line arguments), and the solver may use older versions of dependencies to meet their requirements.
- --bugfix
- Include packages that fix a bugfix issue. Applicable for the install, repoquery, updateinfo and upgrade commands.
- --bz=<bugzilla>, --bzs=<bugzilla>
- Include packages that fix a Bugzilla ID, Eg. 123123. Applicable for the install, repoquery, updateinfo and upgrade commands.
- -C, --cacheonly
- Run entirely from system cache, don't update the cache and use it even in case it is expired. DNF uses a separate cache for each user under which it executes. The cache for the root user is called the system cache. This switch allows a regular user read-only access to the system cache, which usually is more fresh than the user's and thus he does not have to wait for metadata sync.
- --color=<color>
- Control whether color is used in terminal output. Valid values are always, never and auto (default).
- --comment=<comment>
- Add a comment to the transaction history.
- -c <config file>, --config=<config file>
- Configuration file location.
- --cve=<cves>, --cves=<cves>
- Include packages that fix a CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) ID ( http://cve.mitre.org/about/), Eg. CVE-2201-0123. Applicable for the install, repoquery, updateinfo, and upgrade commands.
- -d <debug level>, --debuglevel=<debug level>
- Debugging output level. This is an integer value between 0 (no additional information strings) and 10 (shows all debugging information, even that not understandable to the user), default is 2. Deprecated, use -v instead.
- --debugsolver
- Dump data aiding in dependency solver debugging into ./debugdata.
Disable the configuration file excludes. Takes
one of the following three options:
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- all, disables all configuration file excludes
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- main, disables excludes defined in the [main] section
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- repoid, disables excludes defined for the given repository
- --disable, --set-disabled
- Disable specified repositories (automatically saves). The option has to be used together with the config-manager command (dnf-plugins-core).
- --disableplugin=<plugin names>
- Disable the listed plugins specified by names or globs.
- --disablerepo=<repoid>
- Temporarily disable active repositories for the purpose of the current dnf command. Accepts an id, a comma-separated list of ids, or a glob of ids. This option can be specified multiple times, but is mutually exclusive with --repo.
- --downloaddir=<path>, --destdir=<path>
- Redirect downloaded packages to provided directory. The option has to be used together with the - -downloadonly command line option, with the download, modulesync or reposync commands (dnf-plugins-core) or with the system-upgrade command (dnf-plugins-extras).
- --downloadonly
- Download the resolved package set without performing any rpm transaction (install/upgrade/erase). Packages are removed after the next successful transaction. This applies also when used together with --destdir option as the directory is considered as a part of the DNF cache. To persist the packages, use the download command instead.
- -e <error level>, --errorlevel=<error level>
- Error output level. This is an integer value between 0 (no error output) and 10 (shows all error messages), default is 3. Deprecated, use -v instead.
- --enable, --set-enabled
- Enable specified repositories (automatically saves). The option has to be used together with the config-manager command (dnf-plugins-core).
- --enableplugin=<plugin names>
- Enable the listed plugins specified by names or globs.
- --enablerepo=<repoid>
- Temporarily enable additional repositories for the purpose of the current dnf command. Accepts an id, a comma-separated list of ids, or a glob of ids. This option can be specified multiple times.
- --enhancement
- Include enhancement relevant packages. Applicable for the install, repoquery, updateinfo and upgrade commands.
- -x <package-file-spec>, --exclude=<package-file-spec>
- Exclude packages specified by <package-file-spec> from the operation.
- --excludepkgs=<package-file-spec>
- Deprecated option. It was replaced by the --exclude option.
- --forcearch=<arch>
- Force the use of an architecture. Any architecture can be specified. However, use of an architecture not supported natively by your CPU will require emulation of some kind. This is usually through QEMU. The behavior of --forcearch can be configured by using the arch and ignorearch configuration options with values <arch> and True respectively.
- -h, --help, --help-cmd
- Show the help.
- --installroot=<path>
- Specifies an alternative installroot, relative to where all packages will be installed. Think of this like doing chroot <root> dnf, except using --installroot allows dnf to work before the chroot is created. It requires absolute path.
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- cachedir, log files, releasever, and gpgkey are taken from or stored in the installroot. Gpgkeys are imported into the installroot from a path relative to the host which can be specified in the repository section of configuration files.
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- configuration file and reposdir are searched inside the installroot first. If they are not present, they are taken from the host system. Note: When a path is specified within a command line argument ( --config=<config file> in case of configuration file and --setopt=reposdir=<reposdir> for reposdir) then this path is always relative to the host with no exceptions.
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- vars are taken from the host system or installroot according to reposdir . When reposdir path is specified within a command line argument, vars are taken from the installroot. When varsdir paths are specified within a command line argument ( --setopt=varsdir=<reposdir>) then those path are always relative to the host with no exceptions.
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- The pluginpath and pluginconfpath are relative to the host.
Note: You may also want to use the
command-line option --releasever=<release> when creating the
installroot, otherwise the $releasever value is taken from the rpmdb
within the installroot (and thus it is empty at the time of creation and the
transaction will fail). If --releasever=/ is used, the releasever will
be detected from the host ( /) system. The new installroot path at the
time of creation does not contain the repository, releasever and
dnf.conf files.
On a modular system you may also want to use the
--setopt=module_platform_id=<module_platform_name:stream>
command-line option when creating the installroot, otherwise the
module_platform_id value will be taken from the /etc/os-release
file within the installroot (and thus it will be empty at the time of
creation, the modular dependency could be unsatisfied and modules content
could be excluded).
Installroot examples:
- dnf --installroot=<installroot> --releasever=<release> install system-release
- Permanently sets the releasever of the system in the <installroot> directory to <release>.
- dnf --installroot=<installroot> --setopt=reposdir=<path> --config /path/dnf.conf upgrade
- Upgrades packages inside the installroot from a repository described by --setopt using configuration from /path/dnf.conf.
- --newpackage
- Include newpackage relevant packages. Applicable for the install, repoquery, updateinfo and upgrade commands.
- --noautoremove
- Disable removal of dependencies that are no longer used. It sets clean_requirements_on_remove configuration option to False.
- --nobest
- Set best option to False, so that transactions are not limited to best candidates only.
- --nodocs
- Do not install documentation. Sets the rpm flag 'RPMTRANS_FLAG_NODOCS'.
- --nogpgcheck
- Skip checking GPG signatures on packages (if RPM policy allows).
- --noplugins
- Disable all plugins.
- --obsoletes
- This option has an effect on an install/update, it enables dnf's obsoletes processing logic. For more information see the obsoletes option. This option also displays capabilities that the package obsoletes when used together with the repoquery command. Configuration Option: obsoletes
- -q, --quiet
- In combination with a non-interactive command, shows just the relevant content. Suppresses messages notifying about the current state or actions of DNF.
- -R <minutes>, --randomwait=<minutes>
- Maximum command wait time.
- --refresh
- Set metadata as expired before running the command.
- --releasever=<release>
- Configure DNF as if the distribution release was <release>. This can affect cache paths, values in configuration files and mirrorlist URLs.
- --repofrompath <repo>,<path/url>
- Specify a repository to add to the repositories for this query. This option can be used multiple times.
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- The repository label is specified by <repo>.
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- The path or url to the repository is specified by <path/url>. It is the same path as a baseurl and can be also enriched by the repo variables.
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- The configuration for the repository can be adjusted using - -setopt=<repo>.<option>=<value>.
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- If you want to view only packages from this repository, combine this with the --repo=<repo> or --disablerepo="*" switches.
- --repo=<repoid>, --repoid=<repoid>
- Enable just specific repositories by an id or a glob. Can be used multiple times with accumulative effect. It is basically a shortcut for --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo=<repoid> and is mutually exclusive with the --disablerepo option.
- --rpmverbosity=<name>
- RPM debug scriptlet output level. Sets the debug level to <name> for RPM scriptlets. For available levels, see the rpmverbosity configuration option.
- --sec-severity=<severity>, --secseverity=<severity>
- Includes packages that provide a fix for an issue of the specified severity. Applicable for the install, repoquery, updateinfo and upgrade commands.
- --security
- Includes packages that provide a fix for a security issue. Applicable for the upgrade command.
- --setopt=<option>=<value>
- Override a configuration option from the configuration file. To override configuration options for repositories, use repoid.option for the <option>. Values for configuration options like excludepkgs, includepkgs, installonlypkgs and tsflags are appended to the original value, they do not override it. However, specifying an empty value (e.g. --setopt=tsflags=) will clear the option.
- --skip-broken
- Resolve depsolve problems by removing packages that are causing problems from the transaction. It is an alias for the strict configuration option with value False. Additionally, with the enable and disable module subcommands it allows one to perform an action even in case of broken modular dependencies.
- --showduplicates
- Show duplicate packages in repositories. Applicable for the list and search commands.
- -v, --verbose
- Verbose operation, show debug messages.
- --version
- Show DNF version and exit.
- -y, --assumeyes
- Automatically answer yes for all questions.
COMMANDS
For an explanation of <package-spec>, <package-file-spec> and <package-name-spec> see Specifying Packages.Alias Command
Command: alias
List aliases with their final result. The
[<alias>...] parameter further limits the result to only those
aliases matching it.
Create new aliases.
Delete aliases.
Alias Examples
- dnf alias list
- Lists all defined aliases.
- dnf alias add rm=remove
- Adds a new command alias called rm which works the same as the remove command.
- dnf alias add upgrade="\upgrade --skip-broken --disableexcludes=all --obsoletes"
- Adds a new command alias called upgrade which works the same as the upgrade command, with additional options. Note that the original upgrade command is prefixed with a \ to prevent an infinite loop in alias processing.
Alias Processing Examples
If there are defined aliases in=install and FORCE="--skip-broken --disableexcludes=all":- •
- dnf FORCE in will be replaced with dnf --skip-broken --disableexcludes=all install
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- dnf in FORCE will be replaced with dnf install FORCE (which will fail)
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- dnf in will be replaced with dnf install
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- dnf --repo updates in will be replaced with dnf --repo updates in (which will fail)
Autoremove Command
Command: autoremove Aliases for explicit NEVRA matching: autoremove-n, autoremove-na, autoremove-nevra
Removes all "leaf" packages from the
system that were originally installed as dependencies of user-installed
packages, but which are no longer required by any such package.
This is an alias for the Remove Command
command with clean_requirements_on_remove set to True. It removes the
specified packages from the system along with any packages depending on the
packages being removed. Each <spec> can be either a
<package-spec>, which specifies a package directly, or a
@<group-spec>, which specifies an (environment) group which
contains it. It also removes any dependencies that are no longer needed.
There are also a few specific autoremove commands autoremove-n,
autoremove-na and autoremove-nevra that allow the specification
of an exact argument in the NEVRA (name-epoch:version-release.architecture)
format.
Check Command
Command: check
Checks the local packagedb and produces
information on any problems it finds. You can limit the checks to be performed
by using the --dependencies, --duplicates, --obsoleted
and --provides options (the default is to check everything).
Check-Update Command
Command: check-update Aliases: check-upgrade
Non-interactively checks if updates of the
specified packages are available. If no <package-file-spec> is
given, checks whether any updates at all are available for your system. DNF
exit code will be 100 when there are updates available and a list of the
updates will be printed, 0 if not and 1 if an error occurs. If
--changelogs option is specified, also changelog delta of packages
about to be updated is printed.
Please note that having a specific newer version available for an installed
package (and reported by check-update) does not imply that subsequent
dnf upgrade will install it. The difference is that dnf upgrade
has restrictions (like package dependencies being satisfied) to take into
account.
The output is affected by the autocheck_running_kernel configuration
option.
Clean Command
Command: clean
- dnf clean dbcache
- Removes cache files generated from the repository metadata. This forces DNF to regenerate the cache files the next time it is run.
- dnf clean expire-cache
- Marks the repository metadata expired. DNF will re-validate the cache for each repository the next time it is used.
- dnf clean metadata
- Removes repository metadata. Those are the files which DNF uses to determine the remote availability of packages. Using this option will make DNF download all the metadata the next time it is run.
- dnf clean packages
- Removes any cached packages from the system.
- dnf clean all
- Does all of the above.
Deplist Command
- dnf [options] deplist [<select-options>] [<query-options>] [<package-spec>]
- Deprecated alias for dnf repoquery --deplist.
Distro-Sync Command
Command: distro-sync Aliases: dsync Deprecated aliases: distrosync, distribution-synchronization
- dnf distro-sync [<package-spec>...]
- As necessary upgrades, downgrades or keeps selected installed packages to match the latest version available from any enabled repository. If no package is given, all installed packages are considered. See also Configuration Files Replacement Policy.
Downgrade Command
Command: downgrade Aliases: dg
- dnf [options] downgrade <package-spec>...
- Downgrades the specified packages to the highest installable package of all known lower versions if possible. When version is given and is lower than version of installed package then it downgrades to target version.
Group Command
Command: group Aliases: grp Deprecated aliases: groups, grouplist, groupinstall, groupupdate, groupremove, grouperase, groupinfo
- dnf [options] group [summary] <group-spec>
- Display overview of how many groups are installed and available. With a spec, limit the output to the matching groups. summary is the default groups subcommand.
- dnf [options] group info <group-spec>
- Display package lists of a group. Shows which packages are installed or available from a repository when -v is used.
- dnf [options] group install [--with-optional] <group-spec>...
- Mark the specified group installed and install packages it contains. Also include optional packages of the group if --with-optional is specified. All mandatory and Default packages will be installed whenever possible. Conditional packages are installed if they meet their requirement. If the group is already (partially) installed, the command installs the missing packages from the group. Depending on the value of obsoletes configuration option group installation takes obsoletes into account.
- dnf [options] group list <group-spec>...
- List all matching groups, either among installed or available groups. If nothing is specified, list all known groups. --installed and --available options narrow down the requested list. Records are ordered by the display_order tag defined in comps.xml file. Provides a list of all hidden groups by using option --hidden. Provides group IDs when the -v or --ids options are used.
- dnf [options] group remove <group-spec>...
- Mark the group removed and remove those packages in the group from the system which do not belong to another installed group and were not installed explicitly by the user.
- dnf [options] group upgrade <group-spec>...
- Upgrades the packages from the group and upgrades the group itself. The latter comprises of installing packages that were added to the group by the distribution and removing packages that got removed from the group as far as they were not installed explicitly by the user.
- dnf [options] group mark install <group-spec>...
- Mark the specified group installed. No packages will be installed by this command, but the group is then considered installed.
- dnf [options] group mark remove <group-spec>...
- Mark the specified group removed. No packages will be removed by this command.
Help Command
Command: help
- dnf help [<command>]
- Displays the help text for all commands. If given a command name then only displays help for that particular command.
History Command
Command: history Aliases: hist
- dnf history [list] [--reverse] [<spec>...]
- The default history action is listing information about given transactions in a table. Each <spec> can be either a <transaction-spec>, which specifies a transaction directly, or a <transaction-spec>..<transaction-spec>, which specifies a range of transactions, or a <package-name-spec>, which specifies a transaction by a package which it manipulated. When no transaction is specified, list all known transactions.
- --reverse
- The order of history list output is printed in reverse order.
- dnf history info [<spec>...]
- Describe the given transactions. The meaning of <spec> is the same as in the History List Command. When no transaction is specified, describe what happened during the latest transaction.
- dnf history redo <transaction-spec>|<package-file-spec>
- Repeat the specified transaction. Uses the last transaction (with the highest ID) if more than one transaction for given <package-file-spec> is found. If it is not possible to redo some operations due to the current state of RPMDB, it will not redo the transaction.
- dnf history replay [--ignore-installed] [--ignore-extras] [--skip-unavailable] <filename>
- Replay a transaction stored in file <filename> by History Store Command. The replay will perform the exact same operations on the packages as in the original transaction and will return with an error if case of any differences in installed packages or their versions. See also the Transaction JSON Format specification of the file format.
- --ignore-installed
- Don't check for the installed packages being in the same state as those recorded in the transaction. E.g. in case there is an upgrade foo-1.0 -> foo-2.0 stored in the transaction, but there is foo-1.1 installed on the target system.
- --ignore-extras
- Don't check for extra packages pulled into the transaction on the target system. E.g. the target system may not have some dependency, which was installed on the source system. The replay errors out on this by default, as the transaction would not be the same.
- --skip-unavailable
- In case some packages stored in the transaction are not available on the target system, skip them instead of erroring out.
- dnf history rollback <transaction-spec>|<package-file-spec>
- Undo all transactions performed after the specified transaction. Uses the last transaction (with the highest ID) if more than one transaction for given <package-file-spec> is found. If it is not possible to undo some transactions due to the current state of RPMDB, it will not undo any transaction.
- dnf history store [--output <output-file>] <transaction-spec>
- Store a transaction specified by <transaction-spec>. The transaction can later be replayed by the History Replay Command. Warning: The stored transaction format is considered unstable and may change at any time. It will work if the same version of dnf is used to store and replay (or between versions as long as it stays the same). -o <output-file>, --output=<output-file> Store the serialized transaction into <output-file. Default is transaction.json.
- dnf history undo <transaction-spec>|<package-file-spec>
- Perform the opposite operation to all operations performed in the specified transaction. Uses the last transaction (with the highest ID) if more than one transaction for given <package-file-spec> is found. If it is not possible to undo some operations due to the current state of RPMDB, it will not undo the transaction.
- dnf history userinstalled
- Show all installonly packages, packages installed outside of DNF and packages not installed as dependency. I.e. it lists packages that will stay on the system when Autoremove Command or Remove Command along with clean_requirements_on_remove configuration option set to True is executed. Note the same results can be accomplished with dnf repoquery --userinstalled, and the repoquery command is more powerful in formatting of the output.
Info Command
Command: info Aliases: if
- dnf [options] info [<package-file-spec>...]
- Lists description and summary information about installed and available packages.
Install Command
Command: install Aliases: in Aliases for explicit NEVRA matching: install-n, install-na, install-nevra Deprecated aliases: localinstall
- dnf [options] install <spec>...
- Makes sure that the given packages and their dependencies are installed on the system. Each <spec> can be either a <package-spec>, or a @ <module-spec>, or a @<group-spec>. See Install Examples. If a given package or provide cannot be (and is not already) installed, the exit code will be non-zero. If the <spec> matches both a @<module-spec> and a @ <group-spec>, only the module is installed. When <package-spec> to specify the exact version of the package is given, DNF will install the desired version, no matter which version of the package is already installed. The former version of the package will be removed in the case of non-installonly package. On the other hand if <package-spec> specifies only a name, DNF also takes into account packages obsoleting it when picking which package to install. This behaviour is specific to the install command. Note that this can lead to seemingly unexpected results if a package has multiple versions and some older version is being obsoleted. It creates a split in the upgrade-path and both ways are considered correct, the resulting package is picked simply by lexicographical order. There are also a few specific install commands install-n, install-na and install-nevra that allow the specification of an exact argument in the NEVRA format. See also Configuration Files Replacement Policy.
Install Examples
- dnf install tito
- Install the tito package (tito is the package name).
- dnf install ~/Downloads/tito-0.6.2-1.fc22.noarch.rpm
- Install a local rpm file tito-0.6.2-1.fc22.noarch.rpm from the ~/Downloads/ directory.
- dnf install tito-0.5.6-1.fc22
- Install the package with a specific version. If the package is already installed it will automatically try to downgrade or upgrade to the specific version.
- dnf --best install tito
- Install the latest available version of the package. If the package is already installed it will try to automatically upgrade to the latest version. If the latest version of the package cannot be installed, the installation will fail.
- dnf install vim
- DNF will automatically recognize that vim is not a package name, but will look up and install a package that provides vim with all the required dependencies. Note: Package name match has precedence over package provides match.
- dnf install https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/tito/0.6.0/1.fc22/noarch/tito-0.6.0-1.fc22.noarch.rpm
- Install a package directly from a URL.
- dnf install '@docker'
- Install all default profiles of module 'docker' and their RPMs. Module streams get enabled accordingly.
- dnf install '@Web Server'
- Install the 'Web Server' environmental group.
- dnf install /usr/bin/rpmsign
- Install a package that provides the /usr/bin/rpmsign file.
- dnf -y install tito --setopt=install_weak_deps=False
- Install the tito package (tito is the package name) without weak deps. Weak deps are not required for core functionality of the package, but they enhance the original package (like extended documentation, plugins, additional functions, etc.).
- dnf install --advisory=FEDORA-2018-b7b99fe852 \*
- Install all packages that belong to the "FEDORA-2018-b7b99fe852" advisory.
List Command
Command: list Aliases: ls
- dnf [options] list [--all] [<package-file-spec>...]
- Lists all packages, present in the RPMDB, in a repository or both.
- dnf [options] list --installed [<package-file-spec>...]
- Lists installed packages.
- dnf [options] list --available [<package-file-spec>...]
- Lists available packages.
- dnf [options] list --extras [<package-file-spec>...]
- Lists extras, that is packages installed on the system that are not available in any known repository.
- dnf [options] list --obsoletes [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages installed on the system that are obsoleted by packages in any known repository.
- dnf [options] list --recent [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages recently added into the repositories.
- dnf [options] list --upgrades [<package-file-spec>...]
- List upgrades available for the installed packages.
- dnf [options] list --autoremove
- List packages which will be removed by the dnf autoremove command.
Makecache Command
Command: makecache Aliases: mc
- dnf [options] makecache
- Downloads and caches metadata for enabled repositories. Tries to avoid downloading whenever possible (e.g. when the local metadata hasn't expired yet or when the metadata timestamp hasn't changed).
- dnf [options] makecache --timer
- Like plain makecache, but instructs DNF to be more resource-aware, meaning it will not do anything if running on battery power and will terminate immediately if it's too soon after the last successful makecache run (see dnf.conf(5), metadata_timer_sync).
Mark Command
Command: mark
- dnf mark install <package-spec>...
- Marks the specified packages as installed by user. This can be useful if any package was installed as a dependency and is desired to stay on the system when Autoremove Command or Remove Command along with clean_requirements_on_remove configuration option set to True is executed.
- dnf mark remove <package-spec>...
- Unmarks the specified packages as installed by user. Whenever you as a user don't need a specific package you can mark it for removal. The package stays installed on the system but will be removed when Autoremove Command or Remove Command along with clean_requirements_on_remove configuration option set to True is executed. You should use this operation instead of Remove Command if you're not sure whether the package is a requirement of other user installed packages on the system.
- dnf mark group <package-spec>...
- Marks the specified packages as installed by group. This can be useful if any package was installed as a dependency or a user and is desired to be protected and handled as a group member like during group remove.
Module Command
Command: module
- dnf [options] module install <module-spec>...
- Install module profiles, including their packages. In case no profile was provided, all default profiles get installed. Module streams get enabled accordingly. This command cannot be used for switching module streams. Use the dnf module switch-to command for that.
- dnf [options] module update <module-spec>...
- Update packages associated with an active module stream, optionally restricted to a profile. If the profile_name is provided, only the packages referenced by that profile will be updated.
- dnf [options] module switch-to <module-spec>...
- Switch to or enable a module stream, change versions of installed packages to versions provided by the new stream, and remove packages from the old stream that are no longer available. It also updates installed profiles if they are available for the new stream. When a profile was provided, it installs that profile and does not update any already installed profiles. This command can be used as a stronger version of the dnf module enable command, which not only enables modules, but also does a distrosync to all modular packages in the enabled modules. It can also be used as a stronger version of the dnf module install command, but it requires to specify profiles that are supposed to be installed, because switch-to command does not use default profiles. The switch-to command doesn't only install profiles, it also makes a distrosync to all modular packages in the installed module.
- dnf [options] module remove <module-spec>...
- Remove installed module profiles, including packages that were installed with the dnf module install command. Will not remove packages required by other installed module profiles or by other user-installed packages. In case no profile was provided, all installed profiles get removed.
- dnf [options] module remove --all <module-spec>...
- Remove installed module profiles, including packages that were installed with the dnf module install command. With --all option it additionally removes all packages whose names are provided by specified modules. Packages required by other installed module profiles and packages whose names are also provided by any other module are not removed.
- dnf [options] module enable <module-spec>...
- Enable a module stream and make the stream RPMs available in the package set. Modular dependencies are resolved, dependencies checked and also recursively enabled. In case of modular dependency issue the operation will be rejected. To perform the action anyway please use - -skip-broken option. This command cannot be used for switching module streams. Use the dnf module switch-to command for that.
- dnf [options] module disable <module-name>...
- Disable a module. All related module streams will become unavailable. Consequently, all installed profiles will be removed and the module RPMs will become unavailable in the package set. In case of modular dependency issue the operation will be rejected. To perform the action anyway please use - -skip-broken option.
- dnf [options] module reset <module-name>...
- Reset module state so it's no longer enabled or disabled. Consequently, all installed profiles will be removed and only RPMs from the default stream will be available in the package set.
- dnf [options] module provides <package-name-spec>...
- Lists all modular packages matching <package-name-spec> from all modules (including disabled), along with the modules and streams they belong to.
- dnf [options] module list [--all] [module_name...]
- Lists all module streams, their profiles and states (enabled, disabled, default).
- dnf [options] module list --enabled [module_name...]
- Lists module streams that are enabled.
- dnf [options] module list --disabled [module_name...]
- Lists module streams that are disabled.
- dnf [options] module list --installed [module_name...]
- List module streams with installed profiles.
- dnf [options] module info <module-spec>...
- Print detailed information about given module stream.
- dnf [options] module info --profile <module-spec>...
- Print detailed information about given module profiles.
- dnf [options] module repoquery <module-spec>...
- List all available packages belonging to selected modules.
- dnf [options] module repoquery --available <module-spec>...
- List all available packages belonging to selected modules.
- dnf [options] module repoquery --installed <module-spec>...
- List all installed packages with same name like packages belonging to selected modules.
Provides Command
Command: provides Aliases: prov, whatprovides, wp
- dnf [options] provides <provide-spec>
- Finds the packages providing the given <provide-spec>. This is useful when one knows a filename and wants to find what package (installed or not) provides this file. The <provide-spec> is gradually looked for at following locations:
- 1.
- The <provide-spec> is matched with all file provides of any available package:
$ dnf provides /usr/bin/gzip gzip-1.9-9.fc29.x86_64 : The GNU data compression program Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/gzip
- 2.
- Then all provides of all available packages are searched:
$ dnf provides "gzip(x86-64)" gzip-1.9-9.fc29.x86_64 : The GNU data compression program Matched from: Provide : gzip(x86-64) = 1.9-9.fc29
- 3.
- DNF assumes that the <provide-spec> is a system command, prepends it with /usr/bin/, /usr/sbin/ prefixes (one at a time) and does the file provides search again. For legacy reasons (packages that didn't do UsrMove) also /bin and /sbin prefixes are being searched:
$ dnf provides zless gzip-1.9-9.fc29.x86_64 : The GNU data compression program Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/zless
- 4.
- If this last step also fails, DNF returns "Error: No Matches found".
Reinstall Command
Command: reinstall Aliases: rei
- dnf [options] reinstall <package-spec>...
- Installs the specified packages, fails if some of the packages are either not installed or not available (i.e. there is no repository where to download the same RPM).
Remove Command
Command: remove Aliases: rm Aliases for explicit NEVRA matching: remove-n, remove-na, remove-nevra Deprecated aliases: erase, erase-n, erase-na, erase-nevra
- dnf [options] remove <package-spec>...
- Removes the specified packages from the system along with any packages depending on the packages being removed. Each <spec> can be either a <package-spec>, which specifies a package directly, or a @<group-spec>, which specifies an (environment) group which contains it. If clean_requirements_on_remove is enabled (the default), also removes any dependencies that are no longer needed.
- dnf [options] remove --duplicates
- Removes older versions of duplicate packages. To ensure the integrity of the system it reinstalls the newest package. In some cases the command cannot resolve conflicts. In such cases the dnf shell command with remove --duplicates and upgrade dnf-shell sub-commands could help.
- dnf [options] remove --oldinstallonly
- Removes old installonly packages, keeping only latest versions and version of running kernel. There are also a few specific remove commands remove-n, remove-na and remove-nevra that allow the specification of an exact argument in the NEVRA format.
Remove Examples
- dnf remove acpi tito
- Remove the acpi and tito packages.
- dnf remove $(dnf repoquery --extras --exclude=tito,acpi)
- Remove packages not present in any repository, but don't remove the tito and acpi packages (they still might be removed if they depend on some of the removed packages).
dnf remove --duplicates
Repoinfo Command
Command: repoinfo
An alias for the repolist command that
provides more detailed information like dnf repolist -v.
Repolist Command
Command: repolist
- dnf [options] repolist [--enabled|--disabled|--all]
- Depending on the exact command lists enabled, disabled or all known repositories. Lists all enabled repositories by default. Provides more detailed information when -v option is used.
Repoquery Command
Command: repoquery Aliases: rq Aliases for explicit NEVRA matching: repoquery-n, repoquery-na, repoquery-nevra
- dnf [options] repoquery [<select-options>] [<query-options>] [<package-file-spec>]
- Searches available DNF repositories for selected packages and displays the requested information about them. It is an equivalent of rpm -q for remote repositories.
- dnf [options] repoquery --groupmember <package-spec>...
- List groups that contain <package-spec>.
- dnf [options] repoquery --querytags
- Provides the list of tags recognized by the --queryformat repoquery option. There are also a few specific repoquery commands repoquery-n, repoquery-na and repoquery-nevra that allow the specification of an exact argument in the NEVRA format (does not affect arguments of options like --whatprovides <arg>, ...).
Select Options
Together with <package-file-spec>, control what packages are displayed in the output. If <package-file-spec> is given, limits the resulting set of packages to those matching the specification. All packages are considered if no <package-file-spec> is specified.- <package-file-spec>
- Package specification in the NEVRA format (name[-[epoch:]version[-release]][.arch]), a package provide or a file provide. See Specifying Packages.
- -a, --all
- Query all packages (for rpmquery compatibility, also a shorthand for repoquery '*' or repoquery without arguments).
- --arch <arch>[,<arch>...], --archlist <arch>[,<arch>...]
- Limit the resulting set only to packages of selected architectures (default is all architectures). In some cases the result is affected by the basearch of the running system, therefore to run repoquery for an arch incompatible with your system use the --forcearch=<arch> option to change the basearch.
- --duplicates
- Limit the resulting set to installed duplicate packages (i.e. more package versions for the same name and architecture). Installonly packages are excluded from this set.
- --unneeded
- Limit the resulting set to leaves packages that were installed as dependencies so they are no longer needed. This switch lists packages that are going to be removed after executing the dnf autoremove command.
- --available
- Limit the resulting set to available packages only (set by default).
- --disable-modular-filtering
- Disables filtering of modular packages, so that packages of inactive module streams are included in the result.
- --extras
- Limit the resulting set to packages that are not present in any of the available repositories.
- -f <file>, --file <file>
- Limit the resulting set only to the package that owns <file>.
- --installed
- Limit the resulting set to installed packages only. The exclude option in the configuration file might influence the result, but if the command line option - -disableexcludes is used, it ensures that all installed packages will be listed.
- --installonly
- Limit the resulting set to installed installonly packages.
- --latest-limit <number>
- Limit the resulting set to <number> of latest packages for every package name and architecture. If <number> is negative, skip <number> of latest packages. For a negative <number> use the --latest-limit=<number> syntax.
- --recent
- Limit the resulting set to packages that were recently edited.
- --repo <repoid>
- Limit the resulting set only to packages from a repository identified by <repoid>. Can be used multiple times with accumulative effect.
- --unsatisfied
- Report unsatisfied dependencies among installed packages (i.e. missing requires and existing conflicts).
- --upgrades
- Limit the resulting set to packages that provide an upgrade for some already installed package.
- --userinstalled
- Limit the resulting set to packages installed by the user. The exclude option in the configuration file might influence the result, but if the command line option - -disableexcludes is used, it ensures that all installed packages will be listed.
- --whatdepends <capability>[,<capability>...]
- Limit the resulting set only to packages that require, enhance, recommend, suggest or supplement any of <capabilities>.
- --whatconflicts <capability>[,<capability>...]
- Limit the resulting set only to packages that conflict with any of <capabilities>.
- --whatenhances <capability>[,<capability>...]
- Limit the resulting set only to packages that enhance any of <capabilities>. Use --whatdepends if you want to list all depending packages.
- --whatobsoletes <capability>[,<capability>...]
- Limit the resulting set only to packages that obsolete any of <capabilities>.
- --whatprovides <capability>[,<capability>...]
- Limit the resulting set only to packages that provide any of <capabilities>.
- --whatrecommends <capability>[,<capability>...]
- Limit the resulting set only to packages that recommend any of <capabilities>. Use --whatdepends if you want to list all depending packages.
- --whatrequires <capability>[,<capability>...]
- Limit the resulting set only to packages that require any of <capabilities>. Use --whatdepends if you want to list all depending packages.
- --whatsuggests <capability>[,<capability>...]
- Limit the resulting set only to packages that suggest any of <capabilities>. Use --whatdepends if you want to list all depending packages.
- --whatsupplements <capability>[,<capability>...]
- Limit the resulting set only to packages that supplement any of <capabilities>. Use --whatdepends if you want to list all depending packages.
- --alldeps
- This option is stackable with --whatrequires or --whatdepends only. Additionally it adds all packages requiring the package features to the result set (used as default).
- --exactdeps
- This option is stackable with --whatrequires or --whatdepends only. Limit the resulting set only to packages that require <capability> specified by --whatrequires.
- --srpm
- Operate on the corresponding source RPM.
Query Options
Set what information is displayed about each package.- -i, --info
- Show detailed information about the package.
- -l, --list
- Show the list of files in the package.
- -s, --source
- Show the package source RPM name.
- --changelogs
- Print the package changelogs.
- --conflicts
- Display capabilities that the package conflicts with. Same as --qf "%{conflicts}.
- --depends
- Display capabilities that the package depends on, enhances, recommends, suggests or supplements.
- --enhances
- Display capabilities enhanced by the package. Same as --qf "%{enhances}"".
- --location
- Show a location where the package could be downloaded from.
- --obsoletes
- Display capabilities that the package obsoletes. Same as --qf "%{obsoletes}".
- --provides
- Display capabilities provided by the package. Same as --qf "%{provides}".
- --recommends
- Display capabilities recommended by the package. Same as --qf "%{recommends}".
- --requires
- Display capabilities that the package depends on. Same as --qf "%{requires}".
- --requires-pre
- Display capabilities that the package depends on for running a %pre script. Same as --qf "%{requires-pre}".
- --suggests
- Display capabilities suggested by the package. Same as --qf "%{suggests}".
- --supplements
- Display capabilities supplemented by the package. Same as --qf "%{supplements}".
- --tree
- Display a recursive tree of packages with capabilities specified by one of the following supplementary options: --whatrequires, --requires, --conflicts, --enhances, --suggests, --provides, --supplements, --recommends.
- --deplist
- Produce a list of all direct dependencies and what packages provide those dependencies for the given packages. The result only shows the newest providers (which can be changed by using --verbose).
- --nvr
- Show found packages in the name-version-release format. Same as --qf "%{name}-%{version}-%{release}".
- --nevra
- Show found packages in the name-epoch:version-release.architecture format. Same as --qf "%{name}-%{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}" (default).
- --envra
- Show found packages in the epoch:name-version-release.architecture format. Same as --qf "%{epoch}:%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}"
- --qf <format>, --queryformat <format>
- Custom display format. <format> is the string to output for each matched package. Every occurrence of %{<tag>} within is replaced by the corresponding attribute of the package. The list of recognized tags can be displayed by running dnf repoquery --querytags.
- --recursive
- Query packages recursively. Has to be used with --whatrequires <REQ> (optionally with --alldeps, but not with --exactdeps) or with --requires <REQ> --resolve.
- --resolve
- resolve capabilities to originating package(s).
Examples
Display NEVRAs of all available packages matching light*:dnf repoquery 'light*'
dnf repoquery-na 'light*.noarch'
dnf repoquery --requires lighttpd
dnf repoquery --requires python --resolve
dnf repoquery --source lighttpd
dnf repoquery --file /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
dnf repoquery --queryformat '%{name}.%{arch} : %{reponame}' lighttpd
dnf repoquery --whatprovides webserver
dnf repoquery --whatprovides webserver --arch i686
dnf repoquery --duplicates
dnf repoquery --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="*-source" --arch=src --whatrequires <provide>
Repository-Packages Command
Command: repository-packages Deprecated aliases: repo-pkgs, repo-packages, repository-pkgs
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> check-update [<package-file-spec>...]
- Non-interactively checks if updates of the specified packages in the repository are available. DNF exit code will be 100 when there are updates available and a list of the updates will be printed.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> info [--all] [<package-file-spec>...]
- List all related packages.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> info --installed [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages installed from the repository.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> info --available [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages available in the repository but not currently installed on the system.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> info --extras [<package-file-specs>...]
- List packages installed from the repository that are not available in any repository.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> info --obsoletes [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages in the repository that obsolete packages installed on the system.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> info --recent [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages recently added into the repository.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> info --upgrades [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages in the repository that upgrade packages installed on the system.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> install [<package-spec>...]
- Install packages matching <package-spec> from the repository. If <package-spec> isn't specified at all, install all packages from the repository.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> list [--all] [<package-file-spec>...]
- List all related packages.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> list --installed [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages installed from the repository.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> list --available [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages available in the repository but not currently installed on the system.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> list --extras [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages installed from the repository that are not available in any repository.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> list --obsoletes [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages in the repository that obsolete packages installed on the system.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> list --recent [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages recently added into the repository.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> list --upgrades [<package-file-spec>...]
- List packages in the repository that upgrade packages installed on the system.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> move-to [<package-spec>...]
- Reinstall all those packages that are available in the repository.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> reinstall [<package-spec>...]
- Run the reinstall-old subcommand. If it fails, run the move-to subcommand.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> reinstall-old [<package-spec>...]
- Reinstall all those packages that were installed from the repository and simultaneously are available in the repository.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> remove [<package-spec>...]
- Remove all packages installed from the repository along with any packages depending on the packages being removed. If clean_requirements_on_remove is enabled (the default) also removes any dependencies that are no longer needed.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> remove-or-distro-sync [<package-spec>...]
- Select all packages installed from the repository. Upgrade, downgrade or keep those of them that are available in another repository to match the latest version available there and remove the others along with any packages depending on the packages being removed. If clean_requirements_on_remove is enabled (the default) also removes any dependencies that are no longer needed.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> remove-or-reinstall [<package-spec>...]
- Select all packages installed from the repository. Reinstall those of them that are available in another repository and remove the others along with any packages depending on the packages being removed. If clean_requirements_on_remove is enabled (the default) also removes any dependencies that are no longer needed.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> upgrade [<package-spec>...]
- Update all packages to the highest resolvable version available in the repository. When versions are specified in the <package-spec>, update to these versions.
- dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> upgrade-to [<package-specs>...]
- A deprecated alias for the upgrade subcommand.
Search Command
Command: search Aliases: se
- dnf [options] search [--all] <keywords>...
- Search package metadata for keywords. Keywords are matched as case-insensitive substrings, globbing is supported. By default lists packages that match all requested keys (AND operation). Keys are searched in package names and summaries. If the "--all" option is used, lists packages that match at least one of the keys (an OR operation). In addition the keys are searched in the package descriptions and URLs. The result is sorted from the most relevant results to the least.
Shell Command
Command: shell Aliases: sh
- dnf [options] shell [filename]
- Open an interactive shell for conducting multiple commands during a single execution of DNF. These commands can be issued manually or passed to DNF from a file. The commands are much the same as the normal DNF command line options. There are a few additional commands documented below.
- config [conf-option] [value]
- •
- Set a configuration option to a requested value. If no value is given it prints the current value.
- repo [list|enable|disable] [repo-id]
- •
- list: list repositories and their status
- •
- enable: enable repository
- •
- disable: disable repository
- transaction [list|reset|solve|run]
- •
- list: resolve and list the content of the transaction
- •
- reset: reset the transaction
- •
- run: resolve and run the transaction
Swap Command
Command: swap
Remove spec and install spec in one
transaction. Each <spec> can be either a
<package-spec>, which specifies a package directly, or a
@<group-spec>, which specifies an (environment) group which
contains it. Automatic conflict solving is provided in DNF by the
--allowerasing option that provides the functionality of the swap command
automatically.
Updateinfo Command
Command: updateinfo Aliases: upif Deprecated aliases: list-updateinfo, list-security, list-sec, info-updateinfo, info-security, info-sec, summary-updateinfo
- dnf [options] updateinfo [--summary|--list|--info] [<availability>] [<spec>...]
- Display information about update advisories. Depending on the output type, DNF displays just counts of advisory types (omitted or --summary), list of advisories (--list) or detailed information ( --info). The -v option extends the output. When used with --info, the information is even more detailed. When used with --list, an additional column with date of the last advisory update is added. <availability> specifies whether advisories about newer versions of installed packages (omitted or --available), advisories about equal and older versions of installed packages ( --installed), advisories about newer versions of those installed packages for which a newer version is available ( --updates) or advisories about any versions of installed packages ( --all) are taken into account. Most of the time, --available and --updates displays the same output. The outputs differ only in the cases when an advisory refers to a newer version but there is no enabled repository which contains any newer version. Note, that --available takes only the latest installed versions of packages into account. In case of the kernel packages (when multiple version could be installed simultaneously) also packages of the currently running version of kernel are added. To print only advisories referencing a CVE or a bugzilla use --with-cve or --with-bz options. When these switches are used also the output of the --list is altered - the ID of the CVE or the bugzilla is printed instead of the one of the advisory. If given and if neither ID, type ( bugfix, enhancement, security/ sec) nor a package name of an advisory matches <spec>, the advisory is not taken into account. The matching is case-sensitive and in the case of advisory IDs and package names, globbing is supported. Output of the --summary option is affected by the autocheck_running_kernel configuration option.
Upgrade Command
Command: upgrade Aliases: up Deprecated aliases: update, upgrade-to, update-to, localupdate
- dnf [options] upgrade
- Updates each package to the latest version that is both available and resolvable.
- dnf [options] upgrade <package-spec>...
- Updates each specified package to the latest available version. Updates dependencies as necessary. When versions are specified in the <package-spec>, update to these versions.
- dnf [options] upgrade @<spec>...
- Alias for the dnf module update command.
Upgrade-Minimal Command
Command: upgrade-minimal Aliases: up-min Deprecated aliases: update-minimal
- dnf [options] upgrade-minimal
- Updates each package to the latest available version that provides a bugfix, enhancement or a fix for a security issue (security).
- dnf [options] upgrade-minimal <package-spec>...
- Updates each specified package to the latest available version that provides a bugfix, enhancement or a fix for security issue (security). Updates dependencies as necessary.
SPECIFYING PACKAGES
Many commands take a <package-spec> parameter that selects a package for the operation. The <package-spec> argument is matched against package NEVRAs, provides and file provides.Globs
Package specification supports the same glob pattern matching that shell does, in all three above mentioned packages it matches against (NEVRAs, provides and file provides).- *
- Matches any number of characters.
- ?
- Matches any single character.
- []
- Matches any one of the enclosed characters. A pair of characters separated by a hyphen denotes a range expression; any character that falls between those two characters, inclusive, is matched. If the first character following the [ is a ! or a ^ then any character not enclosed is matched.
NEVRA Matching
When matching against NEVRAs, partial matching is supported. DNF tries to match the spec against the following list of NEVRA forms (in decreasing order of priority):- •
- name-[epoch:]version-release.arch
- •
- name.arch
- •
- name
- •
- name-[epoch:]version-release
- •
- name-[epoch:]version
Specifying NEVRA Matching Explicitly
Some commands ( autoremove, install, remove and repoquery) also have aliases with suffixes -n, -na and -nevra that allow to explicitly specify how to parse the arguments:- •
- Command install-n only matches against name.
- •
- Command install-na only matches against name.arch.
- •
- Command install-nevra only matches against name-[epoch:]version-release.arch.
SPECIFYING PROVIDES
<provide-spec> in command descriptions means the command operates on packages providing the given spec. This can either be an explicit provide, an implicit provide (i.e. name of the package) or a file provide. The selection is case-sensitive and globbing is supported.Specifying File Provides
If a spec starts with either / or */, it is considered as a potential file provide.SPECIFYING GROUPS
<group-spec> allows one to select (environment) groups a particular operation should work on. It is a case insensitive string (supporting globbing characters) that is matched against a group's ID, canonical name and name translated into the current LC_MESSAGES locale (if possible).SPECIFYING MODULES
<module-spec> allows one to select modules or profiles a particular operation should work on.- •
- NAME
- •
- NAME:STREAM
- •
- NAME:STREAM:VERSION
- •
- NAME:STREAM:VERSION:CONTEXT
- •
- all above combinations with ::ARCH (e.g. NAME::ARCH)
- •
- NAME:STREAM:VERSION:CONTEXT:ARCH
- •
- all above combinations with /PROFILE (e.g. NAME/PROFILE)
SPECIFYING TRANSACTIONS
<transaction-spec> can be in one of several forms. If it is an integer, it specifies a transaction ID. Specifying last is the same as specifying the ID of the most recent transaction. The last form is last-<offset>, where <offset> is a positive integer. It specifies offset-th transaction preceding the most recent transaction.PACKAGE FILTERING
Package filtering filters packages out from the available package set, making them invisible to most of dnf commands. They cannot be used in a transaction. Packages can be filtered out by either Exclude Filtering or Modular Filtering.Exclude Filtering
Exclude Filtering is a mechanism used by a user or by a DNF plugin to modify the set of available packages. Exclude Filtering can be modified by either includepkgs or excludepkgs configuration options in configuration files. The - -disableexcludes command line option can be used to override excludes from configuration files. In addition to user-configured excludes, plugins can also extend the set of excluded packages. To disable excludes from a DNF plugin you can use the - -disableplugin command line option.Modular Filtering
Please see the modularity documentation for details on how Modular Filtering works.METADATA SYNCHRONIZATION
Correct operation of DNF depends on having access to up-to-date data from all enabled repositories but contacting remote mirrors on every operation considerably slows it down and costs bandwidth for both the client and the repository provider. The metadata_expire (see dnf.conf(5)) repository configuration option is used by DNF to determine whether a particular local copy of repository data is due to be re-synced. It is crucial that the repository providers set the option well, namely to a value where it is guaranteed that if particular metadata was available in time T on the server, then all packages it references will still be available for download from the server in time T + metadata_expire.CONFIGURATION FILES REPLACEMENT POLICY
The updated packages could replace the old modified configuration files with the new ones or keep the older files. Neither of the files are actually replaced. To the conflicting ones RPM gives additional suffix to the origin name. Which file should maintain the true name after transaction is not controlled by package manager but is specified by each package itself, following packaging guideline.FILES
- Cache Files
- /var/cache/dnf
- Main Configuration
- /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
- Repository
- /etc/yum.repos.d/
SEE ALSO
- •
- dnf.conf(5), DNF Configuration Reference
- •
- dnf-PLUGIN(8) for documentation on DNF plugins.
- •
- dnf.modularity(7), Modularity overview.
- •
- dnf-transaction-json(5), Stored Transaction JSON Format Specification.
- •
- DNF project homepage (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/)
- •
- How to report a bug (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/wiki/Bug-Reporting)
- •
- YUM project homepage (http://yum.baseurl.org/)
AUTHOR
See AUTHORS in DNF source distribution.COPYRIGHT
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