{"id":3474,"date":"2017-07-21T02:19:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T02:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2017-07-21T02:19:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T02:19:15","slug":"dandifying-mageia-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2017\/07\/21\/dandifying-mageia-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dandifying Mageia, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our previous blog post on “dandifying Mageia” (nearly a year ago!)<\/a>, we introduced DNF in Mageia 6 to the world. Since then, we’ve been keeping pace and tracking upstream development in Cauldron. By working closely with upstream and being actively involved in the development process (which involved reviewing and testing proposed changes), we’ve been able to ensure that the package manager evolves on the right track. This has led to benefits for both us in Mageia as well as Fedora and other projects using DNF (such as the Yocto Project, which adopted DNF with their 2.3 release<\/a>).<\/p>\n

As a consequence of our work to bring you the latest and greatest of package manager technology, Mageia is pleased to be one of the first major Linux distributions to offer DNF 2.x on release! We currently have v2.5.1 of DNF, along with v2.1.1 of the core plugins and v2.0.1 of the extra plugins. DNF is also preinstalled with all fresh installations of Mageia 6, and for those who upgraded from Mageia 5, you can just install the “dnf” package to get it.<\/p>\n

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DNF running “dnf upgrade” on Mageia 6<\/p><\/div>\n

For those who prefer a graphical experience with package management, we’ve developed dnfdragora<\/a> to provide an intuitive graphical frontend similar to rpmdrake. Though unlike rpmdrake, dnfdragora provides native Qt 5, GTK+ 3, and ncurses frontends, so it doesn’t matter what you’re using as your desktop, you’ll have a nice experience with dnfdragora.<\/p>\n