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DNF4(8) DNF DNF4(8)
dnf4 - DNF Command Reference
dnf [options] <command> [<args>...]
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.
Plugins can modify or extend features of DNF or provide
additional CLI commands on top of those mentioned below. If you
know the name of such a command (including commands mentioned
below), you may find/install the package which provides it using
the appropriate virtual provide in the form of
dnf-command(<alias>), where <alias> is the name of the command;
e.g.``dnf install 'dnf-command(versionlock)'`` installs a
versionlock plugin. This approach also applies to specifying
dependencies of packages that require a particular DNF command.
Return values:
• 0 : Operation was successful.
• 1 : An error occurred, which was handled by dnf.
• 3 : An unknown unhandled error occurred during operation.
• 100: See check-update
• 200: There was a problem with acquiring or releasing of locks.
Available commands:
• alias
• autoremove
• check
• check-update
• clean
• deplist
• distro-sync
• downgrade
• group
• help
• history
• info
• install
• list
• makecache
• mark
• module
• provides
• reinstall
• remove
• repoinfo
• repolist
• repoquery
• repository-packages
• search
• shell
• swap
• updateinfo
• upgrade
• upgrade-minimal
Additional information:
• Options
• Specifying Packages
• Specifying Provides
• Specifying File Provides
• Specifying Groups
• Specifying Transactions
• Metadata Synchronization
• Configuration Files Replacement Policy
• Files
• See Also
-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, upgrade and offline-upgrade (dnf-plugins-core)
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, upgrade and
offline-upgrade (dnf-plugins-core) commands.
--bz=<bugzilla>, --bzs=<bugzilla>
Include packages that fix a Bugzilla ID, Eg. 123123.
Applicable for the install, repoquery, updateinfo, upgrade
and offline-upgrade (dnf-plugins-core) 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, upgrade and offline-upgrade (dnf-plugins-core)
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.
--disableexcludes=[all|main|<repoid>],
--disableexcludepkgs=[all|main|<repoid>]
Disable the configuration file excludes. Takes one of the
following three options:
• all, disables all configuration file excludes
• main, disables excludes defined in the [main] section
• 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,
reposync or system-upgrade commands (dnf-plugins-core).
--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, upgrade and
offline-upgrade (dnf-plugins-core) 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, upgrade and
offline-upgrade (dnf-plugins-core) 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.
• The repository label is specified by <repo>.
• 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.
• The configuration for the repository can be adjusted using -‐
-setopt=<repo>.<option>=<value>.
• 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, upgrade and offline-upgrade
(dnf-plugins-core) commands.
--security
Includes packages that provide a fix for a security issue.
Applicable for the install, repoquery, updateinfo, upgrade
and offline-upgrade (dnf-plugins-core) commands.
--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.
List options are comma-separated. Command-line options override
respective settings from configuration files.
For an explanation of <package-spec>, <package-file-spec> and
<package-name-spec> see Specifying Packages.
For an explanation of <provide-spec> see Specifying Provides.
For an explanation of <group-spec> see Specifying Groups.
For an explanation of <module-spec> see Specifying Modules.
For an explanation of <transaction-spec> see Specifying
Transactions.
Alias Command
Command: alias
Allows the user to define and manage a list of aliases (in the
form <name=value>), which can be then used as dnf commands to
abbreviate longer command sequences. For examples on using the
alias command, see Alias Examples. For examples on the alias
processing, see Alias Processing Examples.
To use an alias (name=value), the name must be placed as the
first "command" (e.g. the first argument that is not an option).
It is then replaced by its value and the resulting sequence is
again searched for aliases. The alias processing stops when the
first found command is not a name of any alias.
In case the processing would result in an infinite recursion, the
original arguments are used instead.
Also, like in shell aliases, if the result starts with a \, the
alias processing will stop.
All aliases are defined in configuration files in the
/etc/dnf/aliases.d/ directory in the [aliases] section, and
aliases created by the alias command are written to the USER.conf
file. In case of conflicts, the USER.conf has the highest
priority, and alphabetical ordering is used for the rest of the
configuration files.
Optionally, there is the enabled option in the [main] section
defaulting to True. This can be set for each file separately in
the respective file, or globally for all aliases in the
ALIASES.conf file.
dnf alias [options] [list] [<name>...]
List aliases with their final result. The [<alias>...]
parameter further limits the result to only those aliases
matching it.
dnf alias [options] add <name=value>...
Create new aliases.
dnf alias [options] delete <name>...
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
• dnf in FORCE will be replaced with dnf install FORCE (which
will fail)
If there is defined alias in=install:
• dnf in will be replaced with dnf install
• 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
dnf [options] autoremove
Removes all packages from the system that were originally
installed as dependencies of user-installed packages, but
which are no longer required by any such package.
dnf [options] autoremove <spec>...
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.
This command by default does not force a sync of expired
metadata. See also Metadata Synchronization.
Check Command
Command: check
dnf [options] check [--dependencies] [--duplicates] [--obsoleted]
[--provides]
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
dnf [options] check-update [--changelogs]
[<package-file-spec>...]
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
Performs cleanup of temporary files kept for repositories. This
includes any such data left behind from disabled or removed
repositories as well as for different distribution release
versions.
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
Groups are virtual collections of packages. DNF keeps track of
groups that the user selected ("marked") installed and can
manipulate the comprising packages with simple commands.
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.
Groups can also be marked installed or removed without physically
manipulating any packages:
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.
See also Configuration Files Replacement Policy.
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
The history command allows the user to view what has happened in
past transactions and act according to this information (assuming
the history_record configuration option is set).
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.
The "Action(s)" column lists each type of action taken in
the transaction. The possible values are:
• Install (I): a new package was installed on the system
• Downgrade (D): an older version of a package replaced
the previously-installed version
• Obsolete (O): an obsolete package was replaced by a new
package
• Upgrade (U): a newer version of the package replaced the
previously-installed version
• Remove (E): a package was removed from the system
• Reinstall (R): a package was reinstalled with the same
version
• Reason change (C): a package was kept in the system but
its reason for being installed changed
The "Altered" column lists the number of actions taken in
each transaction, possibly followed by one or two of the
following symbols:
• >: The RPM database was changed, outside DNF, after the
transaction
• <: The RPM database was changed, outside DNF, before the
transaction
• *: The transaction aborted before completion
• #: The transaction completed, but with a non-zero status
• E: The transaction completed successfully, but had
warning/error output
--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 packages installed by user, installed from a
group or a module profile, and packages installed outside
of DNF. 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.
This command by default does not force a sync of expired
metadata, except for the redo, rollback, and undo subcommands.
See also Metadata Synchronization and Configuration Files
Replacement Policy.
Info Command
Command: info
Aliases: if
dnf [options] info [<package-file-spec>...]
Lists description and summary information about installed
and available packages.
The info command limits the displayed packages the same way as
the list command.
This command by default does not force a sync of expired
metadata. See also Metadata Synchronization.
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. As a
consequence, <spec> will be not matched with provides and
file provides.
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
Prints lists of packages depending on the packages' relation to
the system. A package is installed if it is present in the RPMDB,
and it is available if it is not installed but is present in a
repository that DNF knows about.
The list command also limits the displayed packages according to
specific criteria, e.g. to only those that update an installed
package (respecting the repository priority). The exclude option
in the configuration file can influence the result, but if the -‐
-disableexcludes command line option is used, it ensures that all
installed packages will be listed.
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.
This command by default does not force a sync of expired
metadata. See also Metadata Synchronization.
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, it will terminate immediately if it's
too soon after the last successful makecache run (see
dnf.conf(5), metadata_timer_sync), and if the first mirror
in a repository mirrorlist fails, it will not try to
synchronize the metadata from more mirrors for that
repository.
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
Modularity overview is available at man page dnf.modularity(7).
Module subcommands take <module-spec>... arguments that specify
modules or profiles.
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".
This command by default does not force a sync of expired
metadata. See also Metadata Synchronization.
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. As a consequence,
<spec> will be not matched with provides and file
provides.
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).
Remove older versions of duplicated packages (an equivalent of
yum's package-cleanup --cleandups):
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.
This command by default does not force a sync of expired
metadata. See also Metadata Synchronization.
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>, ...). As a consequence, <spec> will be not matched
with file provides.
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]) 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.
The following are mutually exclusive, i.e. at most one can be
specified. If no query option is given, matching packages are
displayed in the standard NEVRA notation.
-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*'
Display NEVRAs of all available packages matching name light* and
architecture noarch (accepts only arguments in the
"<name>.<arch>" format):
dnf repoquery-na 'light*.noarch'
Display requires of all lighttpd packages:
dnf repoquery --requires lighttpd
Display packages providing the requires of python packages:
dnf repoquery --requires python --resolve
Display source rpm of ligttpd package:
dnf repoquery --source lighttpd
Display package name that owns the given file:
dnf repoquery --file /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Display name, architecture and the containing repository of all
lighttpd packages:
dnf repoquery --queryformat '%{name}.%{arch} : %{reponame}' lighttpd
Display all available packages providing "webserver":
dnf repoquery --whatprovides webserver
Display all available packages providing "webserver" but only for
"i686" architecture:
dnf repoquery --whatprovides webserver --arch i686
Display duplicate packages:
dnf repoquery --duplicates
Display source packages that require a <provide> for a build:
dnf repoquery --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="*-source" --arch=src --whatrequires <provide>
Repository-Packages Command
Command: repository-packages
Deprecated aliases: repo-pkgs, repo-packages, repository-pkgs
The repository-packages command allows the user to run commands
on top of all packages in the repository named <repoid>. However,
any dependency resolution takes into account packages from all
enabled repositories. The <package-file-spec> and <package-spec>
specifications further limit the candidates to only those
packages matching at least one of them.
The info subcommand lists description and summary information
about packages depending on the packages' relation to the
repository. The list subcommand just prints lists of those
packages.
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.
This command by default does not force a sync of expired
metadata. See also Metadata Synchronization.
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
Note that all local packages must be used in the first
shell transaction subcommand (e.g. install
/tmp/nodejs-1-1.x86_64.rpm /tmp/acpi-1-1.noarch.rpm)
otherwise an error will occur. Any disable, enable, and
reset module operations (e.g. module enable nodejs) must
also be performed before any other shell transaction
subcommand is used.
Swap Command
Command: swap
dnf [options] swap <remove-spec> <install-spec>
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.
If the main obsoletes configure option is true or the --obsoletes
flag is present, dnf will include package obsoletes in its
calculations. For more information see obsoletes.
See also Configuration Files Replacement Policy.
Upgrade-Minimal Command
Command: upgrade-minimal
Aliases: up-min
Deprecated aliases: update-minimal
dnf [options] upgrade-minimal
Updates each package to the nearest 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 nearest available
version that provides a bugfix, enhancement or a fix for
security issue (security). Updates dependencies as
necessary.
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.
<package-file-spec> is similar to <package-spec>, except provides
matching is not performed. Therefore, <package-file-spec> is
matched only against NEVRAs and file provides.
<package-name-spec> is matched against NEVRAs only.
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).
The following patterns are supported:
* 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.
Note: Curly brackets ({}) are not supported. You can still use
them in shells that support them and let the shell do the
expansion, but if quoted or escaped, dnf will not expand them.
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
Note that name can in general contain dashes (e.g.
package-with-dashes).
The first form that matches any packages is used and the
remaining forms are not tried. If none of the forms match any
packages, an attempt is made to match the <package-spec> against
full package NEVRAs. This is only relevant if globs are present
in the <package-spec>.
<package-spec> matches NEVRAs the same way <package-name-spec>
does, but in case matching NEVRAs fails, it attempts to match
against provides and file provides of packages as well.
You can specify globs as part of any of the five NEVRA
components. You can also specify a glob pattern to match over
multiple NEVRA components (in other words, to match across the
NEVRA separators). In that case, however, you need to write the
spec to match against full package NEVRAs, as it is not possible
to split such spec into NEVRA forms.
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.
<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.
<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).
<module-spec> allows one to select modules or profiles a
particular operation should work on.
It is in the form of NAME:STREAM:VERSION:CONTEXT:ARCH/PROFILE and
supported partial forms are the following:
• 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)
In case stream is not specified, the enabled or the default
stream is used, in this order. In case profile is not specified,
the system default profile or the 'default' profile is used.
<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 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.
To disable all excludes for e.g. the install command you can use
the following combination of command line options:
dnf --disableexcludes=all --disableplugin="*" install bash
Modular Filtering
Please see the modularity documentation for details on how
Modular Filtering works.
With modularity, only RPM packages from active module streams are
included in the available package set. RPM packages from inactive
module streams, as well as non-modular packages with the same
name or provides as a package from an active module stream, are
filtered out. Modular filtering is not applied to packages added
from the command line, installed packages, or packages from
repositories with module_hotfixes=true in their .repo file.
Disabling of modular filtering is not recommended, because it
could cause the system to get into a broken state. To disable
modular filtering for a particular repository, specify
module_hotfixes=true in the .repo file or use
--setopt=<repo_id>.module_hotfixes=true.
To discover the module which contains an excluded package use dnf
module provides.
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.
To further reduce the bandwidth load, some of the commands where
having up-to-date metadata is not critical (e.g. the list
command) do not look at whether a repository is expired and
whenever any version of it is locally available to the user's
account, it will be used. For non-root use, see also the
--cacheonly switch. Note that in all situations the user can
force synchronization of all enabled repositories with the
--refresh switch.
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.
Cache Files
/var/cache/dnf
Main Configuration
/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
Repository
/etc/yum.repos.d/
• 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/ )
See AUTHORS in DNF source distribution.
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