I recently switched from Ubuntu to Fedora. Having a little problem adopting to dnf. In Ubuntu I used to do apt update and then apt upgrade to update all softwares. What is the dnf alternative to apt update in Fedora? Is doing dnf upgrade enough? Also what is the difference between dnf upgrade and dnf upgrade --refresh?
You don't have to 'update' with dnf. It automatically keeps track of whether it's metadata is outdated and needs updating. So the dnf alternative to 'apt update && apt upgrade' is simply 'dnf upgrade'. Regarding the --refresh option, 'man dnf' states:
--refresh
set metadata as expired before running the command
... translated that means that you insist that dnf's cache is outdated and therefore forces it to 'update' before running whatever command you have given.
apt update is equivalent to dnf --refresh check-update. dnf update and dnf upgrade does the same thing.
Asked: 2018-11-25 00:03:18 -0500
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@arpanbiswas97 related -> command_ref
See https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/... . You will want to look at the unique features such as package search and history and provides