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dnf

Package manager for Fedora 41+ and RHEL 10. For equivalent commands in other package managers, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta. More information: https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/commands/index.html.

• Upgrade installed packages to the newest available versions:

sudo dnf {{[up|upgrade]}}

• Search packages via keywords:

dnf {{[se|search]}} {{keyword1 keyword2 ...}}

• Display details about a package:

dnf {{[if|info]}} {{package}}

• Install new packages (use --assumeyes to confirm all prompts automatically):

sudo dnf {{[in|install]}} {{package1 package2 ...}}

• Remove packages:

sudo dnf {{[rm|remove]}} {{package1 package2 ...}}

• List installed packages:

dnf {{[ls|list]}} --installed

• Find which packages provide a given command:

dnf provides {{command}}

• Clean cached data:

sudo dnf clean {{all|dbcache|expire-cache|metadata|packages}}