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Through Virtual Box was installed Fedora Workstation 36. It for experimental purposes.

About package/repository management there are two options yum and dnf where the latter is preferred over the former. For academic purposes yum was used and after to read some tutorials was installed some packages through yum, therefore:

sudo yum install <packagename>

and later - with 1 day of difference - the following set of commands were executed:

 yum check-update sudo yum update yum clean all

With yum update about of 1GB of software was installed/updated according the case. And with yum clean all about 54 files were removed - of course according with that specific update - so it would vary in other point of time.

Now I want work with dnf

Question

  • Does dnf work with all the latest data installed/updated got through yum?

For this specific case, about the 1GB of software got.

Extra questions

  • Can dnf be used in peace to install/remove/update with all the same previous install/remove/update interaction of yum?
  • Can dnf be used in peace to install/remove/update with all the same future install/remove/update interaction of yum? - therefore, be able use interchangeable both commands in the future.
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About package/repository management there are two options yum and dnf where the latter is preferred over the former.

No, actually there is only DNF now -- starting with Fedora 31, yum is no longer available in Fedora, and /usr/bin/yum is only a symlink to /usr/bin/dnf-3 (/usr/bin/dnf also points there, 3 in this context means Python 3 version of DNF) so there is no difference between using yum and dnf.

Note that yum package is still available but contains only the symlink and man page.

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  • In your link provided does not appear the /usr/bin/dnf-3 term - I am going check out Commented May 19, 2022 at 21:45
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    There's nothing special about that, /usr/bin/dnf is also symlink to /usr/bin/dnf-3. This is just to distinguish between Python 3 version of DNF (python3-dnf provides /usr/bin/dnf-3) and Python 2 version (python2-dnf used to provide /usr/bin/dnf-2 on older versions of Fedora). Commented May 20, 2022 at 5:34

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