dnf5-download - Man Page
Download Command
Synopsis
dnf5 download [options] <package-spec>...
Description
The download command in DNF5 is used for downloading binary and source packages defined in package-spec arguments to the current working directory.
Options
- --arch
Limit to packages of given architectures. This option can be used multiple times.
- --resolve
Resolve dependencies of specified packages and download missing ones.
- --alldeps
To be used together with --resolve, it downloads all dependencies, not skipping the already installed ones.
- --from-repo=REPO_ID,...
Packages (or their provides) explicitly specified on the command line will only be looked up in the specified repositories. Repository enabling and disabling still applies. Dependencies of these packages will be resolved from any enabled repository.
- --destdir=<path>
Set directory used for downloading packages to. Default location is to the current working directory.
- --skip-unavailable
Allow skipping packages that are not available in repositories. All available packages will be downloaded.
- --srpm
Download the source rpm. Enables source repositories of all enabled binary repositories.
- --url
Prints the list of URLs where the rpms can be downloaded instead of downloading.
- --urlprotocol
To be used together with --url. It filters out the URLs to the specified protocols: http, https, ftp, or file. This option can be used multiple times.
- --allmirrors
To be used together with --url. It prints out space-separated URLs from all available mirrors for each package.
Examples
- dnf5 download kernel-headers-0:5.17.0-300.fc36.i686
Download the kernel-headers package using the full NEVRA format.
- dnf5 download rpm rpm-devel
Download all packages having the name of rpm or rpm-devel.
- dnf5 download maven-compiler-plugin --resolve --alldeps
Download the maven-compiler-plugin package with all its dependencies.
- dnf5 download --destdir /tmp/my_packages maven-compiler-plugin
Download the maven-compiler-plugin package to /tmp/my_packages directory.
- dnf5 download --url --urlprotocol http python
List the http URL to download the python package.
- dnf5 download python --arch x86_64
Downloads python with the x86_64 architecture.
- dnf5 download dnf5 --srpm
Download the dnf5 source rpm.
See Also
dnf5-specs(7), Patterns specification
Author
See AUTHORS.md in dnf5 source distribution.
Copyright
Contributors to the dnf5 project.
Referenced By
The man page dnf-download(8) is an alias of dnf5-download(8).
Jun 26, 2025 dnf5