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Some Examples of installing popular apps using DNF

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  • Installing Firefox
sudo dnf install firefox
  • Installing VLC media player
sudo dnf install vlc

An image showing installation of VLC

  • Installing GIMP
sudo dnf install gimp

Installing GIMP

What is Fedora’s DNF package manager and how to use it?

A package manager is a program that helps you to manage and install and manage apps and their dependencies on a system. While Debian-based systems have dpkg and APT as their package managers and Arch-based systems have Pacman, Fedora-based systems use DNF.

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What is DNF?

DNF or Dandified YUM is the package manager of Fedora and Fedora derivatives and is the successor of Yellow-dog Updater Modified or YUM package manager. It is used to manage packages, i.e. install, upgrade, update, reinstall, and uninstall them among other things. DNF has been the default package manager of Fedora since version 22 (2015) and it was first introduced in version 18 in 2013....

Structure of command

The basic structure of the command is...

Basic and most frequent commands

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The “help” option will help (ahm) you, it will list all the basic commands you possibly might need....

Some Examples of installing popular apps using DNF

Installing Firefox...

Conclusion

Thats it! Now you know all the basic DNF commands to install, update, uninstall and do other things with apps. All you need to do now is to just open the terminal and start managing those nice packages with the new skills that you just learned. Let us know about the DNF commands you use most frequently in the comments. You can learn more about DNF in Fedora documentation or you could always read the man pages of DNF....

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