DNF (software)

DNF or Dandified YUM[4][5][6] 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;[7] it has been the default package manager since Fedora 22 in 2015,[8] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8,[9] and OpenMandriva,[10] and is also an alternative package manager for Mageia.

Dandified Yum
Developer(s)Red Hat
Initial release18 January 2012 (2012-01-18)[1]
Stable release
4.17.0[2] &
5.1.4[3] / 1 September 2023 (2023-09-01)[2] &
18 September 2023 (2023-09-18)[3]
Repository
Written inC, C++, Python
Operating systemLinux, IBM AIX
PlatformRPM
Available inEnglish
TypePackage management system
LicenseGPLv2
Websiterpm-software-management.github.io

Perceived deficiencies of yum (which DNF is intended to address) include poor performance, high memory usage, and the slowness of its iterative dependency resolution.[11] DNF uses libsolv, an external dependency resolver.[11]

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.[12] In 2018, the DNF team announced the decision to move libdnf from C to C++.[13][14] 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.[15]

Adoption

DNF has been the default command-line package manager for Fedora since version 22, which was released in May 2015.[8] The libdnf library is used as a package backend in PackageKit,[15] which offers a graphical user interface (GUI). Later dnfdragora was developed for Fedora 27 as another alternative graphical front-end of DNF.[16][17] 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.[18]

It is also the default package manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and by extension, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux.

Dependencies

libdnf
  • high-level API for DNF and underlying libraries
  • C, C++
  • LGPLv2+

libsolv
  • a free package dependency solver using a satisfiability algorithm for solving packages and reading repositories
  • C
  • New BSD License

librepo
  • a library providing C and Python (libcURL like) API for downloading Linux repository metadata and packages
  • C
  • LGPLv2+

libcomps
  • libcomps is an alternative for yum.comps library, written in pure C, and has bindings for Python
  • C
  • GPLv2+

References
  1. 0.6.4-1 for rpm-software-management/dnf dnf on GitHub
  2. Tags · rpm-software-management/dnf on GitHub
  3. Tags · rpm-software-management/dnf5 on GitHub
  4. "DNF". Fedora Project Wiki. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
  5. "What does DNF stand for". DNF User's FAQ. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
  6. README.rst · rpm-software-management/dnf on GitHub
  7. Byfield, Bruce. "Will DNF Replace Yum?". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
  8. "Fedora 22 Released, See What's New [Workstation]". WebUpd8. 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
  9. Matteson, Scott (2019-03-30). "What's new with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat Virtualization". TechRepublic. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  10. "Switching to RPMv4". OpenMandriva. 2018-03-07. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  11. Edge, Jake (2014-01-15). "DNF and Yum in Fedora". LWN.net. Retrieved 2015-03-29.
  12. Šilhan, Jan (2016-02-24). "DNF into C initiative started". DNF blog. Archived from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-07-05.
  13. Mach, Daniel; Mracek, Jaroslav (22 March 2018). "Announcing DNF 3 development". DNF: A Blog of The DNF Team. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  14. Edge, Jake (28 March 2018). "DNF 3: better performance and a move to C++". LWN.net. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  15. Aleksandersen, Daniel (2017-07-05). "Use DNF rather than PackageKit on Fedora". Ctrl blog. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  16. "Changes/Replace yumex-dnf with dnfdragora - Fedora Project Wiki". fedoraproject.org. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  17. "F27 Self Contained Change: Replace Yumex-DNF with dnfdragora - devel - Fedora Mailing-Lists". lists.fedoraproject.org. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  18. Larabel, Michael (2016-09-05). "Mageia To Offer DNF, But Will Keep Using URPMI By Default". Phoronix. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
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