I just got a new update to Fedora under versionh 43. I then had trouble running videos on Youtube. So I searched for codecs and found a terminal install. So I tried that and got a dnf does not exist. I then tried apt-get and apt does not exist. And I tried yum and that does not exist. How am I supposed to install without the install app???
Before anyone asks… dnf version returns bash: dnf: command not found
Try dnf4 or dnf5 then. Pakagekit is still using dnf4.
Please do not!
Next time I just ignore, and will flag you.
I beg your pardon???
Writing in CAPITAL IS MAKING THE IMPRESSION YOU ARE SCREEMING!!! and is not really welcome in online systems/forums/blogs/mailinglists.
I am a former Department of Defense worker. We do not become weak when someone swears. So I tried sudo dnf4 and sudo dnf5 and both return not found.
Please read the link you got on your introduction post. And here I tell you that we changed from dnf4 to dnf5 in F41 and there must be some issue. But how should we help when you just come here and make e a big scene, instead of telling us what you use and your setup looks like …
p.s.
Fedora is a RPM based Distribution and uses Dnf.
While Debian based Distributions use apt /apt-get.
it could be a path issue where it is not pulling the correct packages i would check
echo $PATH
this is mine
$ echo $PATH
/home/stevie/.local/bin:/home/stevie/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin
Are you using atomic desktop? Could you show the output of
hostnamectl | grep Operating
Writing in CAPITAL IS MAKING THE IMPRESSION YOU ARE SCREEMING!!! and is not really welcome in online systems/forums/blogs/mailinglists.
We are willing to help … even more when you are friendly. But Venting as told by an other user and getting loud is not needed. We do love Fedora and that is why we are here to try to help.
I would probably tell you the same even if you would be the head of the Pentagon. We do have a Code of Conduct and if you believe FOSS (Free and Opensource Software) means you can discharge your frustration with Fedora/Linux/etc. you are on the wrong place here.
If, as mentioned above, you are using one of the atomic versions of fedora they will not have dnf or yum installed. Instead they use rpm-ostree for package management.
Please tell us what version of fedora is installed so we at least have a starting point to guide you in the proper direction.
I am Using Fedora 43 with KDE Plasma
Actuallly I expect FOSS to mean well developed AND tested software. It took me almost an hour to get through all of the proesses to acces and post here which was very frustrating. As I told one of the people here, I worked at military facilities that requried Top Secret/Special Catagorized Informationb and our secuiity was nowhere near as much of a pain in the … butt that this website uses.
Duh. I was yelling
I’m using KDE Plasma. I do not know if that is called Atomic or not. If it is (which seems it is) then for rpm-ostree how do I use that in a command to install software? Hopefully (Gracias a Dios) I do not have to type that entire thing to do an install!
Post your system details from
inxi -Fzxx(or a straightfpaste).
Can you check:
To look for what version is installed:
grep 'PRETTY_NAME' /etc/os-release
To look if dnf is installed as long as rpm is still working:
sudo rpm -qa dnf\*
Other things to maybe look at:
ls -la /usr/{bin,sbin}/{yum*,dnf*}
Did you have an alias to run dnf commands?
alias
If this is a workstation installation and packagekit/dnf4 is still working you can try:
pkcon install dnf5
In that case you have little understanding of what FOSS actually is. FOSS=Free Open Source Software and is developed by someone who chooses to do so freely.
In general, each app is created by a volunteer developer, of which there are thousands. That software is provided as open source so anyone is able to get the source code and if they choose make changes.
A distribution then collects the many pieces that are freely available and groups them together to create an OS for users. It is impossible for every potential software issue to be 100% addressed and tested in a FOSS distribution since every distribution is assembled from the various pieces available from many different developers. The various software pieces also undergo further development, bug fixes, etc., at the pace the developer sets with available time and resources on their end.
The distribution makes a best effort to ensure everything works well in the OS but cannot provide the same level of assurance that is given by a single source development team such as Microsoft.
The key thing to understand is that ALL of it is volunteer developed and provided according to the desires, resources, and time available to each volunteer involved. Additionally one must understand that each piece is an individual item produced by someone who is working on their own to make something useful.
If using KDE Plasma then it would have both dnf and yum available.
If using the atomic version known as Kinoite then it would be atomic and those commands would not be available.
One should know at the time of installation which version is being installed.