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dnf4 — Package manager for RHEL 8/9 and older Fedora versions (pre-41). For equivalent commands in other pa

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Problem

How to use the dnf4 command: Package manager for RHEL 8/9 and older Fedora versions (pre-41). For equivalent commands in other package managers, see <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta>. More information: <https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html>.

Solution

dnf4 — Package manager for RHEL 8/9 and older Fedora versions (pre-41). For equivalent commands in other package managers, see <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta>. More information: <https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html>.

Upgrade installed packages to the newest available versions:

sudo dnf4 {{[up|upgrade]}}

Search packages via keywords:

dnf4 {{[se|search]}} {{keyword1 keyword2 ...}}

Display details about a package:

dnf4 {{[if|info]}} {{package}}

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

sudo dnf4 {{[in|install]}} {{package1 package2 ...}}

Remove a package:

sudo dnf4 {{[rm|remove]}} {{package1 package2 ...}}

List installed packages:

dnf4 {{[ls|list]}} --installed

Find which packages provide a given command:

dnf4 {{[wp|provides]}} {{command}}

View all past operations:

dnf4 {{[hist|history]}}

Code Snippets

Upgrade installed packages to the newest available versions

sudo dnf4 {{[up|upgrade]}}

Search packages via keywords

dnf4 {{[se|search]}} {{keyword1 keyword2 ...}}

Display details about a package

dnf4 {{[if|info]}} {{package}}

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

sudo dnf4 {{[in|install]}} {{package1 package2 ...}}

Remove a package

sudo dnf4 {{[rm|remove]}} {{package1 package2 ...}}

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