Fedora 40 Cinnamon - Alternative To Dnfdragora Updater/Package Manager?

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Hi,

New to Fedora - I installed Fedora 40 Cinnamon on my main computer.

On Cinnamon version, the updater/package manager Dnfdragora does not work well.
Can someone recommend an alternative and how to install it in terminal?

Let me know, thanks!

James

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Hi James,

You can do it from the command line e.g.
sudo dnf update && sudo dnf upgrade

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update and upgrade do the same thing. What is equivalent to Ubuntu apt update is to add --refresh to the dnf command.

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Correct, my bad. I had obviously Debian in my head.

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Hi,

That is good information.

Is there a graphical package manager I can install that would work well with Cinnamon?
Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon had a Software Manager app that was quite nice.

Looking for info, screenshots, and reviews if possible.
Let me know, Fedora is completely new to me.

James

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maybe gnome-software

sudo dnf install gnome-software

and if you don’t like

sudo dnf remove gnome-software

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That works well, thank you!

James

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