In the first example we were prompted to press the ‘y’ key in order to proceed with the installation. In this case we entered ‘y’ for yes to proceed with the installation, which then completed successfully. Note that after confirming the packages that will be installed, you will be asked to provide input. Using metadata from Thu Dec 29 21:31:01 2016 In the example below, we are installing Apache, which is provided in the ‘httpd’ package. The dnf command can be used to install packages from a repository with the ‘install’ argument, followed by the package name. If DNF is not yet used by default in your distribution but you’re interested in installing it check out our guide to installing DNF. These examples should serve as a useful introduction, guide or cheat sheet style resource for how to use the dnf command in Linux. Like Yum, DNF is quite powerful as it’s capable of automatically resolving dependency issues, and is similar to other package managers such as ‘apt-get’ in Debian based distributions.

Dandified Yum (DNF) is an RPM based package manager which is used to install and update packages in various Linux distributions including CentOS, RHEL and Fedora.ĭNF is the next major verison of Yum and as such it aims to maintain CLI compatibility with Yum, so a lot of the information here will be similar to our yum commands.

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