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dnf clean — Perform cleanup of temporary files kept for Red Hat-based repositories. More information: <https://d

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Problem

How to use the dnf clean command: Perform cleanup of temporary files kept for Red Hat-based repositories. More information: <https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#clean-command>.

Solution

dnf clean — Perform cleanup of temporary files kept for Red Hat-based repositories. More information: <https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#clean-command>.

Remove cache files generated from the repository metadata:

dnf clean dbcache

Mark the repository metadata as expired:

dnf clean expire-cache

Remove repository metadata:

dnf clean metadata

Remove any cached packages from the system:

dnf clean packages

Clean up all DNF repository specific metadata and cached files (all of the above):

dnf clean all

Code Snippets

Remove cache files generated from the repository metadata

dnf clean dbcache

Mark the repository metadata as expired

dnf clean expire-cache

Remove repository metadata

dnf clean metadata

Remove any cached packages from the system

dnf clean packages

Clean up all DNF repository specific metadata and cached files (all of the above)

dnf clean all

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