Dnf
Discover to which package a file belongs to
With the right Linux software tools, it is easy to find to which package a file belongs. Or the opposite, what files are part of an installed package.
Summary
Discover quickly which file(s) and package are matched together.
Automatic Security Updates with DNF
The dnf package manager and dnf-automatic tool can be used for automated security patching on Linux systems. It requires only a few steps to set it up.
Summary
The Dandified YUM tool, DNF, has become a powerful package manager for systems running Fedora. As it looks now, it will become also the default package manager for CentOS 8 and RHEL 8. One of the benefits from dnf is the option to retrieve security information very easily. This allows us to use it for automatic security patching of our Linux systems. Let’s explore the options and see how dnf-automatic can help us with fully automated patching.
Showing Available Security Updates with DNF
Systems running Fedora have the DNF utility. With DNF it becomes easily to install packages and stay up-to-date with security related updates.
Summary
Checking Security Updates for your Software Packages DNF is the default package manager since Fedora 22. As it is considered to be a better version of YUM, some of our Lynis users asked for DNF support. With focus on auditing and security patching, we definitely wanted to see that for ourselves. While building support, I’ve gathered the most important commands. In this blog post we will have a look how we can leverage the DNF output to show only the available security updates.