dnf - Manages packages with the dnf package manager¶

New in version 1.9.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Status
- Support
- Author

Synopsis ¶

Installs, upgrade, removes, and lists packages and groups with the dnf package manager.

Requirements ¶

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

python >= 2.6
python-dnf
for the autoremove option you need dnf >= 2.0.1”

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
autoremove bool (added in 2.4)	Choices: no yes	If `yes`, removes all "leaf" packages from the system that were originally installed as dependencies of user-installed packages but which are no longer required by any such package. Should be used alone or when state is absent
conf_file		The remote dnf configuration file to use for the transaction.
disable_gpg_check bool	Choices: no ← yes	Whether to disable the GPG checking of signatures of packages being installed. Has an effect only if state is present or latest.
disablerepo		Repoid of repositories to disable for the install/update operation. These repos will not persist beyond the transaction. When specifying multiple repos, separate them with a ",".
enablerepo		Repoid of repositories to enable for the install/update operation. These repos will not persist beyond the transaction. When specifying multiple repos, separate them with a ",".
installroot (added in 2.3)	Default: /	Specifies an alternative installroot, relative to which all packages will be installed.
list		Various (non-idempotent) commands for usage with `/usr/bin/ansible` and not playbooks. See examples.
name required		A list of package names, or package specifier with version, like `name-1.0` When using state=latest, this can be '*' which means run: dnf -y update. You can also pass a url or a local path to a rpm file.
releasever (added in 2.6)	Default: None	Specifies an alternative release from which all packages will be installed.
state	Choices: present ← latest absent	Whether to install (`present`, `latest`), or remove (`absent`) a package.

Notes ¶

Note

When used with a loop: each package will be processed individually, it is much more efficient to pass the list directly to the name option.

Examples ¶

- name: install the latest version of Apache
  dnf:
    name: httpd
    state: latest

- name: remove the Apache package
  dnf:
    name: httpd
    state: absent

- name: install the latest version of Apache from the testing repo
  dnf:
    name: httpd
    enablerepo: testing
    state: present

- name: upgrade all packages
  dnf:
    name: "*"
    state: latest

- name: install the nginx rpm from a remote repo
  dnf:
    name: 'http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm'
    state: present

- name: install nginx rpm from a local file
  dnf:
    name: /usr/local/src/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm
    state: present

- name: install the 'Development tools' package group
  dnf:
    name: '@Development tools'
    state: present

- name: Autoremove unneeded packages installed as dependencies
  dnf:
    autoremove: yes

- name: Uninstall httpd but keep its dependencies
  dnf:
    name: httpd
    state: absent
    autoremove: no

Status ¶

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Support ¶

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author ¶

“Igor Gnatenko (@ignatenkobrain)” <i.gnatenko.brain@gmail.com>
“Cristian van Ee (@DJMuggs)” <cristian at cvee.org>
Berend De Schouwer (github.com/berenddeschouwer)

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