dnf5-reinstall - Man Page

Reinstall Command

Synopsis

dnf5 reinstall [global options] <package-spec>...

Description

The reinstall command in DNF5 is used for reinstalling packages defined in package-spec arguments.

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 reinstall. All remaining packages will be reinstalled.
--allow-downgrade
Enable downgrade of dependencies when resolving the requested operation.
--no-allow-downgrade
Disable downgrade of dependencies when resolving the requested operation.
--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.
--downloadonly
Download the resolved package set without executing an RPM transaction.
--offline
Store the transaction to be performed offline. See dnf5-offline(8), Offline command.

Examples

dnf5 reinstall tito
Reinstall the tito package.
dnf5 reinstall ~/Downloads/tito-0.6.21-1.fc36.noarch.rpm
Reinstall the tito package from the local rpm file.
This can be useful f.e. when the given package is not available in any enabled repository.

See Also

dnf5-specs(7), Patterns specification

Author

See AUTHORS.md in dnf5 source distribution.

Referenced By

dnf5(8).

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

Jun 26, 2025 dnf5