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dnf

Package management utility for RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS (replaces yum). For equivalent commands in other package managers, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta. More information: https://dnf.readthedocs.io.

• Upgrade installed packages to the newest available versions:

sudo dnf upgrade

• Search packages via keywords:

dnf search {{keyword1 keyword2 ...}}

• Display details about a package:

dnf info {{package}}

• Install a new package (use -y to confirm all prompts automatically):

sudo dnf install {{package1 package2 ...}}

• Remove a package:

sudo dnf remove {{package1 package2 ...}}

• List installed packages:

dnf list --installed

• Find which packages provide a given command:

dnf provides {{command}}

• View all past operations:

dnf history