Beyond basic stuff like “dnf install somepackage” or downloading an rpm and using “dnf install my.package.rpm”, this is a running list of useful dnf commands.<\/p>\n
List installed packages (similar to rpm -qa):<\/p>\n
dnf list installed<\/tt><\/p>\n
List packages with updates available:<\/p>\n
dnf check-update<\/tt><\/p>\n
Update everything but<\/em> the kernel: Find package that provides something:<\/p>\n Package info, including version<\/p>\n Show history:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Which brings up an interesting command — you can undo<\/em> a history step instead of trying to uninstall the list of things you just installed.<\/p>\n dnf history undo 98 -y<\/tt><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beyond basic stuff like “dnf install somepackage” or downloading an rpm and using “dnf install my.package.rpm”, this is a running list of useful dnf commands. List installed packages (similar to rpm -qa): dnf list installed List packages with updates available: dnf check-update Update everything but the kernel: dnf update -x kernel* Find package that provides …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1415,47,785],"class_list":["post-9242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-administration","tag-dnf","tag-fedora","tag-rhel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9243,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndnf update -x kernel*<\/tt><\/p>\n[lisa@rhel1 ~\/]# dnf whatprovides cdrskin<\/strong>\r\nLast metadata expiration check: 2:35:57 ago on Fri 12 Aug 2022 11:37:43 AM EDT.\r\ncdrskin-1.5.2-2.fc32.x86_64 : Limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper to ease migration to libburn\r\nRepo : fedora\r\nMatched from:\r\nProvide : cdrskin = 1.5.2-2.fc32\r\n\r\ncdrskin-1.5.4-2.fc32.x86_64 : Limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper to ease migration to libburn\r\nRepo : updates\r\nMatched from:\r\nProvide : cdrskin = 1.5.4-2.fc32<\/pre>\n
[lisa@rhel1 ~\/]# dnf info sendmail<\/strong>\r\nLast metadata expiration check: 2:37:19 ago on Fri 12 Aug 2022 11:37:43 AM EDT.\r\nAvailable Packages\r\nName : sendmail\r\nVersion : 8.15.2\r\nRelease : 43.fc32\r\nArchitecture : x86_64\r\nSize : 730 k\r\nSource : sendmail-8.15.2-43.fc32.src.rpm\r\nRepository : fedora\r\nSummary : A widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA)\r\nURL : http:\/\/www.sendmail.org\/\r\nLicense : Sendmail\r\nDescription : The Sendmail program is a very widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA).\r\n: MTAs send mail from one machine to another. Sendmail is not a client\r\n: program, which you use to read your email. Sendmail is a\r\n: behind-the-scenes program which actually moves your email over\r\n: networks or the Internet to where you want it to go.\r\n:\r\n: If you ever need to reconfigure Sendmail, you will also need to have\r\n: the sendmail-cf package installed. If you need documentation on\r\n: Sendmail, you can install the sendmail-doc package.<\/pre>\n
[lisa@rhel1 ~\/]# dnf history<\/strong>\r\nID | Command line | Date and time | Action(s) | Altered\r\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n 102 | remove liberation-fonts | 2021-11-28 18:44 | Removed | 3\r\n 101 | remove chromedriver | 2021-11-28 18:44 | Removed | 2\r\n 100 | remove google-chrome-stable | 2021-11-28 18:44 | Removed | 1 < 99 | install liberation-fonts | 2021-11-28 18:42 | Install | 1 >\r\n 98 | install chromedriver | 2021-11-28 18:38 | Install | 2\r\n 97 | remove mediainfo | 2021-11-16 13:31 | Removed | 4\r\n 96 | install mediainfo | 2021-11-16 13:29 | Install | 4\r\n<\/pre>\n