dnf5-downgrade - Man Page

Downgrade Command

Synopsis

dnf5 downgrade [options] <package-spec-NPFB>...

Description

The downgrade command in DNF5 is used to downgrade each package specified in package-spec-NPFB list to the highest installable version of all known lower versions if possible. When the version is explicitly given in the argument and it is lower than the version of the installed package then it downgrades to this one.

Options

--allowerasing
Allow removing of installed packages to resolve any potential dependency problems.
--skip-broken
Resolve any dependency problems by removing packages that are causing problems from the transaction.
--skip-unavailable
Allow skipping packages that are not possible to downgrade. All remaining packages will be downgraded.
--allow-downgrade
Enable downgrade of dependencies when resolving the requested operation.
--no-allow-downgrade
Disable downgrade of dependencies when resolving the requested operation.
--installed-from-repo=REPO_ID,...
Filters installed packages by the ID of the repository they were installed from.
--from-repo=REPO_ID,...
Packages (or their provides) explicitly specified on the command line will only be looked up in the specified repositories.
These repositories are automatically enabled.
Repository enabling and disabling still applies. Dependencies of these packages will be resolved from any enabled repository.
--downloadonly
Download the resolved package set without executing an RPM transaction.
--offline
Store the transaction to be performed offline. See offline command, dnf5-offline(8).
--store=PATH
Store the current transaction in a directory at the specified PATH instead of running it.
The stored transaction can be performed by the replay command, dnf5-replay(8).

Examples

dnf5 downgrade nano-0:6.0-2.fc36
Downgrade the nano package to the given version.
dnf5 downgrade gcc glibc --allowerasing
Downgrade gcc, glibc packages and allow removing of installed packages when needed.

See Also

dnf5-specs(7), Patterns specification

Author

See AUTHORS.md in dnf5 source distribution.

Referenced By

dnf5(8), dnf5-do(8).

The man page dnf-downgrade(8) is an alias of dnf5-downgrade(8).

Sep 02, 2025 dnf5