27 DNF (Fork of Yum) Commands for Fedora RPM Package Management | Linux Today

27 DNF (Fork of Yum) Commands for Fedora RPM Package Management

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Ravi Saive
May 29, 2015

DNF aka Dandified YUM is a next generation Package Manager for RPM based Distribution. It was first introduced in Fedora 18 and it is replaced YUM utility in recent release of Fedora 22. DNF aims at improving the bottlenecks of YUM viz., Performance, Memory Usages, Dependency Resolution, Speed and lots of other factors.

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Ravi Saive

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