[CentOS] yum4 and dnf on CentOS 8

Mon Nov 25 17:31:50 UTC 2019
Sergio Belkin <sebelk at gmail.com>

Thanks,

In fact I've found this:
# ls -l /usr/bin/yum
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 may 13  2019 /usr/bin/yum -> dnf-3



El lun., 25 nov. 2019 a las 13:34, Paul Heinlein (<heinlein at madboa.com>)
escribió:

> On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 at 15:39, Sergio Belkin <sebelk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I was using yum for years on CentOS servers, and since a few years ago
> dnf
> >> on Fedora desktops. My question is:
> >> Is the same yum4 on CentOS 8 that dnf? What should I use?
> >> Thanks in advance
> >>
> >
> > yum4 is a thin wrapper on dnf mainly because Enterprise Linux users
> > and scripts are used to the yum commands. You can use either dnf or
> > yum4 on the command line and get the same results.
>
> You mentioned you're familiar with Fedora, so you're probably aware of
> Application Streams -- but for those reading this thread unfamiliar
> with AppStreams, I'll add the caveat that dnf behaves differently than
> yum in this regard.
>
> Here's some background:
>
>
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/installing_managing_and_removing_user_space_components/using-appstream_using-appstream
>
> Right now, the only EL8 AppStream with multiple versions is
> postgresql, but it looks like several applications are setup for
> future multiple streams. To see the AppStream packages, run
>
> dnf module list
>
> If you squint carefully, you'll see that you can install either
> PostgreSQL 10 (the default) or 9.6.
>
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