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# 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

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
allow_downgrade boolean added in 2.7 | Choices: no ← yes | Specify if the named package and version is allowed to downgrade a maybe already installed higher version of that package. Note that setting allow_downgrade=True can make this module behave in a non-idempotent way. The task could end up with a set of packages that does not match the complete list of specified packages to install (because dependencies between the downgraded package and others can cause changes to the packages which were in the earlier transaction).
autoremove boolean 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
bugfix boolean added in 2.7 | Choices: no ← yes | If set to `yes`, and `state=latest` then only installs updates that have been marked bugfix related. Note that, similar to ``dnf upgrade-minimal``, this filter applies to dependencies as well.
conf_file - |  | The remote dnf configuration file to use for the transaction.
disable_excludes - added in 2.7 |  | Disable the excludes defined in DNF config files. If set to `all`, disables all excludes. If set to `main`, disable excludes defined in [main] in dnf.conf. If set to `repoid`, disable excludes defined for given repo id.
disable_gpg_check boolean | 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. This setting affects packages installed from a repository as well as "local" packages installed from the filesystem or a URL.
disable_plugin - added in 2.7 |  | Plugin name to disable for the install/update operation. The disabled plugins will not persist beyond the transaction.
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 ",".
download_dir string added in 2.8 |  | Specifies an alternate directory to store packages. Has an effect only if download_only is specified.
download_only boolean added in 2.7 | Choices: no ← yes | Only download the packages, do not install them.
enable_plugin - added in 2.7 |  | Plugin name to enable for the install/update operation. The enabled plugin will not persist beyond the transaction.
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 ",".
exclude - added in 2.7 |  | Package name(s) to exclude when state=present, or latest. This can be a list or a comma separated string.
install_repoquery boolean added in 2.7 | Choices: no yes ← | This is effectively a no-op in DNF as it is not needed with DNF, but is an accepted parameter for feature parity/compatibility with the yum module.
install_weak_deps boolean added in 2.8 | Choices: no yes ← | Will also install all packages linked by a weak dependency relation.
installroot - | 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.
lock_timeout integer added in 2.8 | Default: 30 | Amount of time to wait for the dnf lockfile to be freed.
name list / elements=string / required |  | A package name 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. To operate on several packages this can accept a comma separated string of packages or a list of packages. aliases: pkg
releasever - added in 2.6 |  | Specifies an alternative release from which all packages will be installed.
security boolean added in 2.7 | Choices: no ← yes | If set to `yes`, and `state=latest` then only installs updates that have been marked security related. Note that, similar to ``dnf upgrade-minimal``, this filter applies to dependencies as well.
skip_broken boolean added in 2.7 | Choices: no ← yes | Skip packages with broken dependencies(devsolve) and are causing problems.
state - | Choices: absent present installed removed latest | Whether to install (`present`, `latest`), or remove (`absent`) a package. Default is `None`, however in effect the default action is `present` unless the `autoremove` option is enabled for this module, then `absent` is inferred.
update_cache boolean added in 2.7 | Choices: no ← yes | Force dnf to check if cache is out of date and redownload if needed. Has an effect only if state is present or latest. aliases: expire-cache
update_only boolean added in 2.7 | Choices: no ← yes | When using latest, only update installed packages. Do not install packages. Has an effect only if state is latest
validate_certs boolean added in 2.7 | Choices: no yes ← | This only applies if using a https url as the source of the rpm. e.g. for localinstall. If set to `no`, the SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only set to `no` used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates as it avoids verifying the source site.

## 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.

- Group removal doesn’t work if the group was installed with Ansible because upstream dnf’s API doesn’t properly mark groups as installed, therefore upon removal the module is unable to detect that the group is installed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1620324)

## 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>

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