Chapter 4. Installing RHEL content

Prerequisites

• Optional: You know the name of the package you want to install.

Procedure

• Use one of the following methods to install packages:

  • To install packages from the repositories, enter:

    # dnf install <package_name_1> <package_name_2> ...

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    If you install packages on a system that supports multiple architectures, such as i686 and x86_64, you can specify the architecture of the package by appending it to the package name:

    # dnf install <package_name>.<architecture>

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  • To install a package if you only know the path to the file the package provides but not the package name, you can use this path to install the corresponding package:

    # dnf install <path_to_file>

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  • To install a local RPM file, enter:

    # dnf install <path_to_RPM_file>

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    If the package has dependencies, specify the paths to these RPM files as well. Otherwise, DNF downloads the dependencies from the repositories or fails if they are not available in the repositories.

Prerequisites

• You know the name or ID of the group you want to install.

Procedure

• Install a package group:

  # dnf group install <group_name_or_ID>

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