karbiv / dnf_memo

Memo for the DNF software package manager(Fedora Linux, "Dandified Yum").

• dnf allows only *, ?, [] globbing in query strings(exps).
• apt-get may use POSIX regular exps.

Red Hat/Fedora	Debian/Ubuntu	Description
dnf install	apt install	Install packages
dnf remove	apt remove	Remove packages
dnf search	apt search	Search for packages by a word in name, description, etc
dnf upgrade	apt update; apt upgrade	Upgrade installed packages to newer versions
dnf distro-sync	apt full-upgrade	Upgrade packages with distro version upgrade
dnf clean all                                 {metadata,packages,dbcache, expire-cache,all}	apt-get clean /                apt-get autoclean / aptitude clean	Clean up all local caches. Autoclean deletes only obsolete info
dnf autoremove	apt-get autoremove	Remove dependencies that are no longer needed
dnf mark install	apt-mark manual	Mark or unmark installed packages as installed by user.
dnf install dnf mark remove	aptitude install '$package&M'	Install package(s) as dependency / without marking as explicitly required.
dnf download	apt-get install --download-only (into the package cache) apt-get download (bypass the package cache)	Download package to current directory
dnf history [list|info|redo|undo |rollback|userinstalled]	cat /var/log/dpkg.log	Show a log of actions taken by the software management.
dnf list, dnf info	apt show / apt-cache policy	Show all or most information about a package
	aptitude purge '~o'	Remove packages no longer included in any repositories.
dnf repoquery --extras		List packages no longer included in any repositories.
dnf repoquery --whatrequires	apt-cache rdepends / aptitude search ~D$pattern	Display packages which require X to be installed, i.e. show reverse dependencies
dnf repoquery --conflicts	aptitude search '~C$pattern'	Display packages which conflict with given expression (often package)
dnf repoquery --requires	apt-cache depends / apt-cache show	Show dependencies
dnf repoquery -l	apt-file list $pattern	Display files provided by a remote/local package
dnf repoquery --installed	dpkg -l	List installed packages along with version
dnf provides	dpkg -S / dlocate	Search the package which provides FILE
dnf repoquery -f	apt-file search	Displays packages which provide the given exp
	apt-get changelog	Show the changelog of a package
dnf check-update	apt-get upgrade -> n	Lists packages which have an update available
dnf list available	apt-cache dumpavail apt-cache dump (Cache only) apt-cache pkgnames	Display a list of all packages in all installation sources
dnf list installed	dpkg --list | grep ^i	List of installed packages
dnf config-manager --add-repo	add-apt-repository	Add repository URL
dnf config-manager --set-disabled / rm /etc/yum.repos.d/URL.repo	add-apt-repository -r	Remove repository URL
	dpkg-reconfigure	Reconfigure installed package
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