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DNF5 Package Management Utility
Synopsis
dnf5 <command> [options] [<args>...]
Description
DNF5 is the new version of DNF, a package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions. It has been completely rewritten in C++ aiming for better performance and reducing external dependencies.
Commands
Here is the list of the available commands. For more details see the separate man page for the specific command, f.e. man dnf5 install.
- advisory
Manage advisories.
- autoremove
Remove unneeded packages.
- clean
Remove or invalidate cached data.
- distro-sync
Upgrade or downgrade installed packages to the latest available version.
- downgrade
Downgrade packages.
- download
Download packages.
- environment
Manage comps environments.
- group
Manage comps groups.
- install
Install packages.
- leaves
List groups of leaf packages.
- makecache
Generate the metadata cache.
- mark
Change the reason of an installed package.
- reinstall
Reinstall packages.
- remove
Remove packages.
- repo
Manage repositories.
- repoquery
Search for packages in repositories.
- search
Search for packages using keywords.
- swap
Remove software and install another in the single transaction.
- upgrade
Upgrade packages.
Plugin commands
Here is the list of the commands available as plugins.
- repoclosure
Display a list of unresolved dependencies for repositories.
Options
Following options are applicable in the general context for any dnf5 command:
- --assumeno
Automatically answer no for all questions.
- --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 DNF5 to only consider the latest packages. When running into packages with broken dependencies, DNF5 will fail giving the 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.
- --comment=COMMENT
Add a comment to the transaction history.
- --config=CONFIG_FILE_PATH
Define configuration file location.
- --debugsolver
Dump additional data from solver for debugging purposes. Data are saved in ./debugdata.
- --disable-plugin=PLUGIN_NAME,...
Disable specified plugins for the purpose of the current DNF5 command. This is a list option which can be specified multiple times. Accepted values are names, or a glob of names.
- --disable-repo=REPO_ID,...
Temporarily disable active repositories for the purpose of the current DNF5 command. This is a list option which can be specified multiple times. Accepted values are ids, or a glob of ids.
- --enable-plugin=PLUGIN_NAME,...
Enable specified plugins for the purpose of the current DNF5 command. This is a list option which can be specified multiple times. Accepted values are names, or a glob of names.
- --enable-repo=REPO_ID,...
Temporarily enable additional repositories for the purpose of the current DNF5 command. This is a list option which can be specified multiple times. Accepted values are ids, or a glob of ids.
- -h, --help
Show the help.
- --installroot=ABSOLUTE_PATH
Setup installroot path. Absolute path is required. See dnf5-installroot(7) for more info.
- --no-best
Do not limit the transaction to the best candidates only.
- --no-docs
Do not install any files that are marked as a documentation (which includes man pages and texinfo documents). It sets the RPMTRANS_FLAG_NODOCS flag.
- --no-gpgchecks
Skip checking GPG signatures on packages (if RPM policy allows that).
- --no-plugins
Disable all plugins.
- -q, --quiet
In combination with a non-interactive command, shows just the relevant content. Suppresses messages notifying about the current state or actions of DNF5.
- --repo=REPO_ID,...
Enable just specified repositories. This is a list option which can be specified multiple times. Accepted values are ids, or a glob of ids.
- --releasever=RELEASEVER
Override the value of the distribution release in configuration files. This can affect cache paths, values in configuration files and mirrorlist URLs.
- --setopt=[REPO_ID.]OPTION=VALUE
Override a configuration option from the configuration file. The REPO_ID parameter is used to override options for repositories.
Values for the 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.
- --setvar=VAR_NAME=VALUE
Override a DNF5 variable value, like arch, releasever, etc.
- --skip-broken
Resolve any dependency problems by removing packages that are causing problems from the transaction.
- -y, --assumeyes
Automatically answer yes for all questions.
- -x PACKAGE-SPEC,..., --exclude=PACKAGE-SPEC,...
Exclude packages specified in PACKAGE-SPEC arguments from the transaction. This is a list option.
Metadata Synchronization
Correct operation of DNF5 depends on having an access to up-to-date data from the 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 repository configuration option is used by DNF5 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 group 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 usages it can be also useful running entirely from the system cache, don't update the cache and use it even in case it is expired by setting the cacheonly configuration option. DNF5 uses a separate cache for each user under which it executes. The cache for the root user is called the system cache. This option 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.
Configuration Files Replacement Policy
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.
Exit Codes
The dnf5 command in general exits with the following return values:
- 0
Operation was successful.
- 1
An error occurred during processing of the command.
- 2
An error occurred during parsing the arguments.
Other exit codes could be returned by the specific command itself, see its documentation for more info.
Files
- Cache Files
/var/cache/libdnf5/
- Main Configuration
/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
- Repository Metadata
/etc/yum.repos.d/
- Repository Persistence
/var/lib/dnf/
- System state
/usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5/
See Also
- Commands in detail:
dnf5-advisory(8), Advisory command dnf5-autoremove(8), Autoremove command dnf5-clean(8), Clean command dnf5-distro-sync(8), Distro-Sync command dnf5-downgrade(8), Downgrade command dnf5-download(8), Download command dnf5-environment(8), Environment command dnf5-group(8), Group command dnf5-install(8), Install command dnf5-leaves(8), Leaves command dnf5-makecache(8), Makecache command dnf5-mark(8), Mark command dnf5-reinstall(8), Reinstall command dnf5-remove(8), Remove command dnf5-repo(8), Repo command dnf5-repoquery(8), Repoquery command dnf5-search(8), Search command dnf5-swap(8), Swap command dnf5-upgrade(8), Upgrade command
- Plugins:
dnf5-repoclosure(8), Repoclosure command
- Miscellaneous:
dnf5-comps(7), Comps groups and environments dnf5-installroot(7), Installroot parameter dnf5-specs(7), Patterns specification
- Project homepage:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5
Author
See AUTHORS.md in dnf5 source distribution.
Copyright
Contributors to the dnf5 project.