Hello. Sorry if this is a stupid question but I am new to Fedora and I am trying to install the development and build tools in Fedora 41. Googling has been useless as of now as I am being told to install “Development Tools” and dnf obstinately says that it can’t find it. Tried “development tools” without success. Has the name changed in F41?
Regards
François Proulx, Longueuil, Québec, Canada
The entire group of development tools can be installed with dnf group install "Development Tools" (dnf4) or dnf install @development-tools (dnf5).
The latter is proper for f41.
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A handy trick is to do a full group list, use --hidden to expose them all and filter the names for “devel”
dnf group list --hidden \*devel\*
ID Name Installed
c-development C Development Tools and Libraries no
d-development D Development Tools and Libraries no
development-libs Development Libraries no
development-tools Development Tools no
gnome-software-development GNOME Software Development no
java-development Java Development no
kde-software-development KDE Software Development no
kf6-software-development KDE Frameworks 6 Software Development no
libreoffice-development LibreOffice Development no
perl Perl Development no
rpm-development-tools RPM Development Tools no
xfce-software-development Xfce Software Development no
x-software-development X Software Development no
I like this also because it shows the IDs which are easier to copy and paste by mouse (no spaces) unlike the “Names”
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