Fedora DNF5

The dnf5 rewrite of DNF, Fedora’s reference package manager since Fedora 41.

Inherits every operation and parser from DNF. Its forced arguments drop --color=never (dnf5 rejects that option), keeping only --quiet.

Platforms

  • 🅱️ BSD

  • 🐧 Linux

  • ⨂ Unix

Operations

Operation

Supported

Notes

installed

✓

outdated

✓

search

✓

exact and extended search backfilled by mpm

install

✓

upgrade

✓

upgrade_all

✓

remove

✓

sync

✓

cleanup

✓

Ecosystem

  • Accepted purl types: pkg:dnf5, pkg:rpm

Usage

$ mpm --dnf5 installed
$ mpm --dnf5 search "query"
$ mpm --dnf5 upgrade --all
$ mpm install pkg:dnf5/hello
$ mpm --dry-run --dnf5 upgrade --all

Every example above accepts --dry-run, which simulates the underlying manager calls without touching the system: the safe way to watch what mpm would do before trusting it.

Deselect the manager for a single run with --no-dnf5, disable it from your configuration, or tune its invocation attributes with per-manager overrides.

Command line

  • CLI names, in lookup order: dnf5

  • Arguments forced before each call: --quiet

The version is extracted from the output of dnf5 --version with:

r"(?P<version>\S+)"

Privilege escalation

System-wide manager: mpm wraps its privileged operations in sudo out of the box. Instead of letting the tool prompt mid-run, mpm primes the credential cache up-front, with a single branded password prompt at most. Turn escalation off for rootless setups with --no-sudo or the per-manager sudo override.

See privilege escalation for the full policy.

Cooldown

State of Fedora DNF5’s release-age gating, from the cooldown support table:

With --cooldown set, mpm skips this manager’s install and upgrade operations rather than run them unguarded (fail-closed); --allow-unsupported-managers opts back in.