DNF5-FORCEARCH(7)

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version 5.4.6.0 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

🌸 DNF5-FORCEARCH(7) 🌸

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about dnf5-forcearch — it's the dnf5 manual page for the Forcearch Parameter and it's genuinely such a vibe. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

dnf5-forcearch — the Forcearch Parameter, aka the lil flag that lets you pretend your CPU is something it's not 🦋

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the --forcearch=<arch> parameter? it overrides the system architecture that DNF 5 detected. that's it, that's the whole personality. 👑

what does that get you? it lets you query repositories for packages that are not compatible with your host system, and then install them. main character behavior, honestly. ✨

you can specify any architecture you want. no gatekeeping. but — and listen closely bestie — using a package whose architecture isn't natively supported by your CPU will require emulation of some kind, e.g. using qemu-user-static. not me warning you and then you doing it anyway 😭

no cap: if your CPU can't speak the language natively, something else has to translate. that's the emulation part. plan accordingly. 🫶

and --forcearch is supported by these commands, bestie, take notes:

  • distro-sync
  • download
  • group
  • info
  • install
  • list
  • makecache
  • repo
  • repoquery
  • search
  • swap

that's the full roster. eleven icons. periodt. 💜

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

dnf5 install --forcearch=aarch64 my-example-package

installs the version of my-example-package for the AArch64 architecture, regardless of the architecture of the host system. like, your host said one thing and you said "no 💅" and now you have aarch64 packages. iconic.

dnf5 download --forcearch=s390x hello

downloads the hello package for the s390x architecture. just downloading it. chilling. 🍓

dnf5 repoquery --forcearch=aarch64 --arch=aarch64

queries all packages available for the AArch64 architecture. okay so this one's a lil combo meal — if your system has a different native architecture, then both --arch and --forcearch are necessary here. here's the breakdown bestie:

  • --arch will filter for only packages with the aarch64 architecture
  • --forcearch sets the "arch" and "basearch" substitution variables to ensure the correct repositories are queried

two flags, one goal, we love a collab. 🤝

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • Tutorial to override the system architecture for C++ API users <#tutorial-session-force-arch-label>
  • Tutorial to override the system architecture for Python API users <#tutorial-bindings-python3-session-force-arch-label>

🎀 Author 🎀

See AUTHORS.md in dnf5 source distribution. (yes, go look, the people who made this are the real ones 💖)

Contributors to the dnf5 project. 🫶

okay that's the whole page, you're officially educated. go forth and --forcearch responsibly, bestie. mwah. 💋✨

this was the dnf5 manual, dated Sep 24, 2026 — shoutout to the whole dnf5 project for keeping us fed 💅

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