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dnf — Package manager for Fedora 41+ and RHEL 10. For equivalent commands in other package managers, see <

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Problem

How to use the dnf command: Package manager for Fedora 41+ and RHEL 10. For equivalent commands in other package managers, see <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta>. More information: <https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/commands/index.html>.

Solution

dnf — Package manager for Fedora 41+ and RHEL 10. For equivalent commands in other package managers, see <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta>. More information: <https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/commands/index.html>.

Upgrade installed packages to the newest available versions:

sudo dnf {{[up|upgrade]}}

Search packages via keywords:

dnf {{[se|search]}} {{keyword1 keyword2 ...}}

Display details about a package:

dnf {{[if|info]}} {{package}}

Install new packages (use --assumeyes to confirm all prompts automatically):

sudo dnf {{[in|install]}} {{package1 package2 ...}}

Remove packages:

sudo dnf {{[rm|remove]}} {{package1 package2 ...}}

List installed packages:

dnf {{[ls|list]}} --installed

Find which packages provide a given command:

dnf provides {{command}}

Clean cached data:

sudo dnf clean {{all|dbcache|expire-cache|metadata|packages}}

Code Snippets

Upgrade installed packages to the newest available versions

sudo dnf {{[up|upgrade]}}

Search packages via keywords

dnf {{[se|search]}} {{keyword1 keyword2 ...}}

Display details about a package

dnf {{[if|info]}} {{package}}

Install new packages (use `--assumeyes` to confirm all prompts automatically)

sudo dnf {{[in|install]}} {{package1 package2 ...}}

Remove packages

sudo dnf {{[rm|remove]}} {{package1 package2 ...}}

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