ansible.builtin.dnf5 module – Manages packages with the dnf5 package manager

Note

This module is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short module name dnf5 even without specifying the collections keyword. However, we recommend you use the Fully Qualified Collection Name (FQCN) ansible.builtin.dnf5 for easy linking to the module documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same module name.

New in ansible-core 2.15

Synopsis

• Installs, upgrade, removes, and lists packages and groups with the dnf5 package manager.

• WARNING: The dnf5 package manager is still under development and not all features that the existing ansible.builtin.dnf module provides are implemented in ansible.builtin.dnf5, please consult specific options for more information.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• python3

• python3-libdnf5

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
allow_downgrade boolean	Specify if the named package and version is allowed to downgrade a maybe already installed higher version of that package. Note that setting allow_downgrade=True can make this module behave in a non-idempotent way. The task could end up with a set of packages that does not match the complete list of specified packages to install (because dependencies between the downgraded package and others can cause changes to the packages which were in the earlier transaction). Choices: false ← (default) true
allowerasing boolean	If true it allows erasing of installed packages to resolve dependencies. Choices: false ← (default) true
autoremove boolean	If true, removes all “leaf” packages from the system that were originally installed as dependencies of user-installed packages but which are no longer required by any such package. Should be used alone or when state is absent Choices: false ← (default) true
best boolean added in ansible-core 2.17	When set to true, either use a package with the highest version available or fail. When set to false, if the latest version cannot be installed go with the lower version. Default is set by the operating system distribution. Choices: false true
bugfix boolean	If set to true, and state=latest then only installs updates that have been marked bugfix related. Note that, similar to dnf upgrade-minimal, this filter applies to dependencies as well. Choices: false ← (default) true
cacheonly boolean	Tells dnf to run entirely from system cache; does not download or update metadata. Choices: false ← (default) true
conf_file string	The remote dnf configuration file to use for the transaction.
disable_excludes string	Disable the excludes defined in DNF config files. If set to all, disables all excludes. If set to main, disable excludes defined in [main] in dnf.conf. If set to repoid, disable excludes defined for given repo id.
disable_gpg_check boolean	Whether to disable the GPG checking of signatures of packages being installed. Has an effect only if state is present or latest. This setting affects packages installed from a repository as well as “local” packages installed from the filesystem or a URL. Choices: false ← (default) true
disable_plugin list / elements=string	This is currently a no-op as dnf5 itself does not implement this feature. Plugin name to disable for the install/update operation. The disabled plugins will not persist beyond the transaction. Default: []
disablerepo list / elements=string	Repoid of repositories to disable for the install/update operation. These repos will not persist beyond the transaction. When specifying multiple repos, separate them with a “,”. Default: []
download_dir string	Specifies an alternate directory to store packages. Has an effect only if download_only is specified.
download_only boolean	Only download the packages, do not install them. Choices: false ← (default) true
enable_plugin list / elements=string	This is currently a no-op as dnf5 itself does not implement this feature. Plugin name to enable for the install/update operation. The enabled plugin will not persist beyond the transaction. Default: []
enablerepo list / elements=string	Repoid of repositories to enable for the install/update operation. These repos will not persist beyond the transaction. When specifying multiple repos, separate them with a “,”. Default: []
exclude list / elements=string	Package name(s) to exclude when state=present, or latest. This can be a list or a comma separated string. Default: []
install_repoquery boolean	This is effectively a no-op in DNF as it is not needed with DNF. This option is deprecated and will be removed in ansible-core 2.20. Choices: false true ← (default)
install_weak_deps boolean	Will also install all packages linked by a weak dependency relation. Choices: false true ← (default)
installroot string	Specifies an alternative installroot, relative to which all packages will be installed. Default: "/"
list string	Various (non-idempotent) commands for usage with /usr/bin/ansible and not playbooks. Use ansible.builtin.package_facts instead of the list argument as a best practice.
lock_timeout integer	This is currently a no-op as dnf5 does not provide an option to configure it. Amount of time to wait for the dnf lockfile to be freed. Default: 30
name aliases: pkg list / elements=string	A package name or package specifier with version, like name-1.0. When using state=latest, this can be ‘*’ which means run: dnf -y update. You can also pass a url or a local path to an rpm file. To operate on several packages this can accept a comma separated string of packages or a list of packages. Comparison operators for package version are valid here >, <, >=, <=. Example - name >= 1.0. Spaces around the operator are required. You can also pass an absolute path for a binary which is provided by the package to install. See examples for more information. Default: []
nobest boolean	This is the opposite of the best option kept for backwards compatibility. Since ansible-core 2.17 the default value is set by the operating system distribution. Choices: false true
releasever string	Specifies an alternative release from which all packages will be installed.
security boolean	If set to true, and state=latest then only installs updates that have been marked security related. Note that, similar to dnf upgrade-minimal, this filter applies to dependencies as well. Choices: false ← (default) true
skip_broken boolean	Skip all unavailable packages or packages with broken dependencies without raising an error. Equivalent to passing the –skip-broken option. Choices: false ← (default) true
sslverify boolean	Disables SSL validation of the repository server for this transaction. This should be set to false if one of the configured repositories is using an untrusted or self-signed certificate. Choices: false true ← (default)
state string	Whether to install (present, latest), or remove (absent) a package. Default is None, however in effect the default action is present unless the autoremove option is enabled for this module, then absent is inferred. Choices: "absent" "present" "installed" "removed" "latest"
update_cache aliases: expire-cache boolean	Force dnf to check if cache is out of date and redownload if needed. Has an effect only if state is present or latest. Choices: false ← (default) true
update_only boolean	When using latest, only update installed packages. Do not install packages. Has an effect only if state is latest Choices: false ← (default) true
validate_certs boolean	This is effectively a no-op in the dnf5 module as dnf5 itself handles downloading a https url as the source of the rpm, but is an accepted parameter for feature parity/compatibility with the ansible.builtin.dnf module. Choices: false true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute	Support	Description
action	Support: partial dnf5 has 2 action plugins that use it under the hood, ansible.builtin.dnf and ansible.builtin.package.	Indicates this has a corresponding action plugin so some parts of the options can be executed on the controller
async	Support: none	Supports being used with the async keyword
bypass_host_loop	Support: none	Forces a ‘global’ task that does not execute per host, this bypasses per host templating and serial, throttle and other loop considerations Conditionals will work as if run_once is being used, variables used will be from the first available host This action will not work normally outside of lockstep strategies
check_mode	Support: full	Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target, if not supported the action will be skipped.
diff_mode	Support: full	Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode
platform	Platform: rhel	Target OS/families that can be operated against

Examples

- name: Install the latest version of Apache
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    name: httpd
    state: latest

- name: Install Apache >= 2.4
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    name: httpd >= 2.4
    state: present

- name: Install the latest version of Apache and MariaDB
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    name:
      - httpd
      - mariadb-server
    state: latest

- name: Remove the Apache package
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    name: httpd
    state: absent

- name: Install the latest version of Apache from the testing repo
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    name: httpd
    enablerepo: testing
    state: present

- name: Upgrade all packages
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    name: "*"
    state: latest

- name: Update the webserver, depending on which is installed on the system. Do not install the other one
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    name:
      - httpd
      - nginx
    state: latest
    update_only: yes

- name: Install the nginx rpm from a remote repo
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    name: 'http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm'
    state: present

- name: Install nginx rpm from a local file
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    name: /usr/local/src/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm
    state: present

- name: Install Package based upon the file it provides
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    name: /usr/bin/cowsay
    state: present

- name: Install the 'Development tools' package group
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    name: '@Development tools'
    state: present

- name: Autoremove unneeded packages installed as dependencies
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    autoremove: yes

- name: Uninstall httpd but keep its dependencies
  ansible.builtin.dnf5:
    name: httpd
    state: absent
    autoremove: no

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Description
failures list / elements=string	A list of the dnf transaction failures Returned: failure Sample: ["Argument 'lsof' matches only excluded packages."]
msg string	Additional information about the result Returned: always Sample: "Nothing to do"
rc integer	For compatibility, 0 for success, 1 for failure Returned: always Sample: 0
results list / elements=string	A list of the dnf transaction results Returned: success Sample: ["Installed: lsof-4.94.0-4.fc37.x86_64"]

Authors

• Ansible Core Team

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