dnf

Overview

dnf is the package manager on Fedora, RHEL 8+, CentOS Stream, Rocky, Alma. Successor to yum (often yum is a symlink to dnf).

Syntax

dnf [options] command [pkg...]

Common Commands

Command	Description
install / remove	Add/remove
upgrade	Update installed
search / info	Discover
list installed\|available	Lists
provides /path	Which package owns a file
repolist	Repos
history	Undo/redo transactions
group install	Package groups
makecache	Refresh metadata
clean all	Clear caches

Examples with Explanations

sudo dnf install htop jq
sudo dnf upgrade
dnf search nginx
dnf info nginx
dnf provides '*/bin/ss'
sudo dnf remove htop
sudo dnf history
sudo dnf history undo last
sudo dnf repolist
sudo dnf install @development-tools

Scripted

sudo dnf -y install curl

Notes

• Config: /etc/dnf/dnf.conf, repos in /etc/yum.repos.d/.
  
• Modules (AppStreams) on RHEL: dnf module list.
  
• For Debian/Ubuntu use apt.

Related Commands

• rpm — low-level RPM
  
• yum — legacy alias
  
• apt — Debian family