27 Jul
2020
27 Jul
'20
12:38 p.m.
On 7/27/20 7:17 AM, stan via users wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:46:30 +0530 Sreyan Chakravarty sreyan32@gmail.com wrote:
Did the trick perfectly. Only have 2 stable 5.6 kernels now.
Great!
What is the difference between dnf and rpm ? When do I use dnf over rpm and vice versa ? Shouldn't DNF be able to do everything that rpm does ?
What is reason for the existence of both ?
rpm is the main database of packages on the system. dnf sits on top of rpm and provides more functionality and ease of use, as well as more protection from making errors.
More specifically, dnf uses rpm for the actual package management operations. dnf provides the dependency resolving and package downloading.