DNF (software)

Last updated
Dandified Yum
Developer(s) Red Hat
Initial release18 January 2012;12 years ago (2012-01-18) [1]
Stable release
5.2.7.0 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 12 November 2024;12 days ago (12 November 2024)
Repository https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf, [3] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5 [4]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Written in
Operating system Linux, IBM AIX
Platform RPM
Available inEnglish
Type Package management system
License GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+ & New BSD License
Website rpm-software-management.github.io

DNF or Dandified YUM [7] [8] [9] is the next-generation version of the Yellowdog Updater Modified (yum), a package manager for .rpm-based Linux distributions. DNF was introduced in Fedora 18 in 2013; [10] it has been the default package manager since Fedora 22 in 2015, [11] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, [12] and OpenMandriva, [13] and is also an alternative package manager for Mageia.

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Perceived deficiencies of yum (which DNF is intended to address) include poor performance, high memory usage, and the slowness of its iterative dependency resolution. [14] DNF uses libsolv, an external dependency resolver. [14]

DNF performs package management tasks on top of RPM, and supporting libraries.

DNF was originally written in Python, but as of 2016 efforts were under way to port it to C and move most functionality from Python code into the new libdnf library. [15] In 2018, the DNF team announced the decision to move libdnf from C to C++. [16] [17] libdnf is already used by PackageKit, a Linux distribution-agnostic package system abstraction library, even though the library does not have most of DNF's features. [18]

Since the launch of Fedora Linux 41, DNF5 is the new default packaging tool. This versatile C++ package manager for RPM packages uses libdnf and libsolv, and features new performance enhancements, updated terminal output and fully integrated modularity. [19]

Adoption

DNF has been the default command-line package manager for Fedora since version 22, which was released in May 2015. [11] The libdnf library is used as a package backend in PackageKit, [18] which offers a graphical user interface (GUI). Later dnfdragora was developed for Fedora 27 as another alternative graphical front-end of DNF. [20] [21] DNF has also been available as an alternate package manager for Mageia Linux since version 6 and may become the default sometime in the future. [22]

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and by extension, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, yum is an alias for dnf. [12]

Dependencies

libdnf

libsolv

librepo

libcomps

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References

  1. ↑ 0.6.4-1 for rpm-software-management/dnf dnf on GitHub
  2. ↑ "5.2.7.0". 12 November 2024. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  3. ↑ "GitHub - rpm-software-management/dnf: Package manager based on libdnf and libsolv. Replaces YUM". GitHub. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "GitHub - rpm-software-management/dnf5: Next-generation RPM package management system". GitHub. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
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  8. ↑ "What does DNF stand for". DNF User's FAQ. Archived from the original on 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
  9. ↑ README.rst · rpm-software-management/dnf on GitHub
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  18. 1 2 Aleksandersen, Daniel (2017-07-05). "Use DNF rather than PackageKit on Fedora". Ctrl blog. Archived from the original on 2017-08-07. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
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