How to Work with DNF Package Groups | Linux Today

How to Work with DNF Package Groups

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Egidio Docile
Jun 9, 2021

DNF is the default high-level package manager in the Red Hat family of distributions, which includes Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and all of its clones. It is the successor of YUM, and indeed using the YUM command in recent versions of the distributions mentioned above, it’s essentially another name for DNF. DNF has a lot of nice features and plugins which help us install, update, and remove software packaged in the .rpm format. In this tutorial, we explore DNF package groups and learn how to handle them.

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Egidio Docile

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