dnf
Package management utility for RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS (replaces yum). Some subcommands such as
group
andconfig-manager
have their own usage documentation. For equivalent commands in other package managers, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta. More information: https://dnf.readthedocs.io.
- Upgrade installed packages to the newest available versions:
sudo dnf upgrade
- Search packages via keywords:
dnf search {{keyword1 keyword2 ...}}
- Display details about a package:
dnf info {{package}}
- Install a new package (use
-y
to confirm all prompts automatically):
sudo dnf install {{package1 package2 ...}}
- Remove a package:
sudo dnf remove {{package1 package2 ...}}
- List installed packages:
dnf list --installed
- Find which packages provide a given command:
dnf provides {{command}}
- View all past operations:
dnf history