dnf – Manages packages with the dnf package manager

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status

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

Notes

Examples

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

- name: install the latest version of Apache and MariaDB
  dnf:
    name:
      - httpd
      - mariadb-server
    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

- name: install a modularity appstream with defined stream and profile
  dnf:
    name: '@postgresql:9.6/client'
    state: present

- name: install a modularity appstream with defined stream
  dnf:
    name: '@postgresql:9.6'
    state: present

- name: install a modularity appstream with defined profile
  dnf:
    name: '@postgresql/client'
    state: present

Status

• This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

• Igor Gnatenko (@ignatenkobrain) <i.gnatenko.brain@gmail.com>
• Cristian van Ee (@DJMuggs) <cristian at cvee.org>
• Berend De Schouwer (@berenddeschouwer)
• Adam Miller (@maxamillion) <admiller@redhat.com>