DNF or Dandified Yum is the next generation version of the Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum), a package manager for RPM-based distributions.
Questions tagged [dnf]
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Fedora Server 38 beta dnf error
After this night my dnf on Fedora 38 broken. Always when I try to install some package or run upgrade command i have output
Total 685…
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dnf list available updates for locked packages
With yum versionlock status I can get a list of available updates that are currently blocked by versionlock. With dnf this command doesn't seem to work.
I cannot find a dnf command that does the same. Is there perhaps another way?
Since dnf does not…

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ubi8 docker image missing packages
I am experimenting the ubi8 as a migration from centos 7 to ubi8 for rhel linux distribution.
Not sure if I miss something, but the ubi-8-appstream-rpms and ubi-8-baseos-rpms seem missing a lot of packages.
Here is my repolist result (I added epel…

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dnf update: Cannot download, all mirrors were already tried without success. (all mirror 404)
I am trying to execute the dnf update command on almalinux 8.7
Before a few hours it worked properly, now all mirror gives 404.
I examined the urls, and it seems, that in all repo the checksum in urls are changed.
For example dnf update is trying…

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dnf doesn't show all updates compared to yum
I had a CentOS 7 machine which I converted to use OEL 7 some time back using the centos2ol.sh script.
Today, I gave the command: "dnf upgrade" and it showed be that 17 packages were to be upgraded with 220MB to download.
I then selected 'N' to abort…

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How to safely downgrade gcc from 8.5 to 8.4?
I have a CentOS Stream 8 server with a backup application that requires the kernel to be compiled with the same version of gcc. Latest kernel is: 4.18.0-408.el8.x86_64
I inadvertently updated gcc in the course of doing updates, and it's currently:…

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Unable to show available updates with Ansible and dnf check-update
I have the following Ansible code for checking available updates on a Rocky linux server and showing them to user:
- name: Check updates
ansible.builtin.command:
cmd: dnf check-update
register: updates
- name: Show result
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Can't do any updates after upgrade to Centos 8
[_admin_@wb_centos ~]$ sudo dnf upgrade
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:00
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'baseos',…

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dnf: missing library, but does exist
Trying to install libmediainfo with dnf, got an error about missing library that does exist.
How to solve this ?
Here is dnfoutput:
$ sudo dnf install -v libmediainfo --allowerasing
DNF version: 4.7.0
cachedir: /var/cache/dnf
User-Agent:…

ymudyruc
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How to deduce remote location of RPM that has been installed?
Suppose I had the following entries in /var/log/dnf.log:
elfutils-default-yama-scope noarch 0.185-1.el8 baseos 49 k
elfutils-devel x86_64 0.185-1.el8 …

Lucky
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yum: local repository and modified package
Following up advices to my other question I have set up my local RPM repository on Red Hat 8 machine, placed my private packages in there and am now able to install, update etc.
However, there is a problem: one package I added in my private…

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yum: install local RPMs and all local dependencies
I have my locally generated rpm packages (the main package and its dependencies) located in my home directory. The spec file defines dependencies. I'd like to install it with a single yum or dnf command and let it find dependencies in my directory…

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dnf update - dependencies
During update I've encountered following errors
yum update
Last metadata expiration check: 0:44:43 ago on Mon 11 Apr 2022 06:33:55 AM CEST.
Error:
Problem 1: package containers-common-2:1-23.module_el8.7.0+1106+45480ee0.x86_64 requires runc, but…

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Fedora 35 dnf ignores max_parallel_download in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
maybe a stupid question but I couldn't find any good hint of what went wrong.
Except for this Post - but unfortunately, it is a dead end. ;-(
Why DNF is not obeying "max_parallel_downloads" from config file?
I am using Fedora as Workstation Version…

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How to install a specific version of PostgreSQL in Red Hat 8?
I'd like to install a specific version of PostgreSQL in RHEL 8 with dnf.
To achieve this I followed the PostgreSQL guide : https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/
But actually I can only install the last version (12.9) not the 12.4 (the…

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