DNF Package Manager For RPM-Based Linux Distributions | Linux Today

DNF Package Manager For RPM-Based Linux Distributions

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Mohd Sohail
May 2, 2017

???It’s an RPM-based package manager used in a number of Linux Distros which include but are not limited to the likes of Fedora, CentOS, RHEL among other to install and update packages. DNF maintains CLI compatibility with Yum as its the next major version release, you will see that most of the commands will be similar to yum commands.

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