Comments on: 27 ‘DNF’ (Fork of Yum) Commands for RPM Package Management in Linux

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 06:18:20 +0000

In reply to dragonmouth. @dragonmouth, In Linux, the "#" symbol specifically denotes the root user in the command-line interface. My apologies for the confusion earlier. You are right; in the context of Unix-like systems, including Linux, the "#" symbol specifically denotes the root user in the command-line interface. In the terminal, the "#" symbol is the default prompt for the root user. When you log in as the root user or use the "su" command to switch to the root user, the command prompt changes from the regular user prompt (usually ending with "$") to the root prompt (ending with "#"). This indicates that you have superuser privileges and can perform administrative tasks without needing to use the "sudo" command.

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:16:47 +0000

Why do Tecmint authors prefix all the sample commands in their articles with a hash mark (#)? If entered as printed, the commands will never execute because # denotes a comment.

By: Akshay K

Akshay K — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 03:06:25 +0000

I first installed epel-release. Then DNF. But at the very first step of dnf --version getting the below error :

'Segmentation fault (core dumped).'

I am using CentOS 7.4.

By: omkar

omkar — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 05:16:32 +0000

In reply to pavan.

did you manage to install it? im planning to install f90.. is it a hassle?

By: Zhichang Yu

Zhichang Yu — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 01:46:02 +0000

Can dnf list the files of a package without installing it?
On debian, apt-file is able to do that:
$ apt-file list iozone3
iozone3: /usr/bin/fileop
iozone3: /usr/bin/iozone
…[skip]…