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Dandified Yum
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Dandified Yum (DNF) is the next upcoming major version of `Yum <http://yum.baseurl.org/>`_. It does package management using `RPM <http://rpm.org/>`_, `libsolv <https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv>`_ and `hawkey <https://github.com/akozumpl/hawkey>`_ libraries. For metadata handling and package downloads it utilizes `librepo <https://github.com/tojaj/librepo>`_. To process and effectively handle the comps data it uses `libcomps <https://github.com/midnightercz/libcomps>`_.
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Installing
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DNF and all its dependencies are available in Fedora 18 and later, including the
rawhide Fedora. You can install DNF from the distribution repositories there::
sudo yum install dnf
In other RPM-based distributions you need to build all the components from their
sources.
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Building from source
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From the DNF git checkout directory::
mkdir build;
cd build;
cmake .. && make;
Then to run DNF::
PYTHONPATH=`readlink -f .` bin/dnf <arguments>
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Documentation
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The DNF package distribution contains man pages, dnf(8) and dnf.conf(8). It is also possible to `read the DNF documentation <http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/>`_ online, the page includes API documentation. There's also a `wiki <https://github.com/akozumpl/dnf/wiki>`_ meant for contributors to DNF and related projects.
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Bug reporting etc.
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Please report discovered bugs to the `Red Hat bugzilla <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/>`_.
Freenode's irc channel ``#yum`` is meant for discussions related to both Yum and DNF. Questions should be asked there, issues discussed. Remember: ``#yum`` is not a support channel and prior research is expected from the questioner.
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