DNF5-PROVIDES(8)

dnf5-provides 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Provides Command — this is the dnf5-provides manual page and it's lowkey one of the most useful lil tools in the whole dnf5 girlboss toolkit. let's get into it ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

dnf5-provides — the Provides Command 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dnf5 provides [global options] <package-spec-PFB>...

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so the provides command in DNF5? it literally goes out there and finds the packages that provide the given <package-spec-PFB>. that's the whole vibe. you hand it a thing, it tells you who's responsible for that thing. iconic behavior fr fr 🫶

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🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

• dnf5 provides tito

Outputs which packages provide the command tito. slay, now you know who owns that command 💖

• dnf5 provides /usr/bin/tito

Outputs which package provides the file /usr/bin/tito. yes, files work too, we love a flexible queen ✨

• dnf5 provides zless

There is no Provides for zless but a package that contains zless exist. Outputs the package that provides the file /usr/bin/zless. see how that works? it still came through for you 💀💅

Note: 🚨 New behavior: if one or more packages are not found by provides DNF5 will now return exit code 1 and list all provides that do not match at the end of the output. so no silent failures anymore bestie, it WILL tell you what went wrong, periodt.

• dnf5 provides rpm nonexistent_package

Output provides for rpm and inform in stderr that nonexistent_package did not match any result. one of them ate, one of them... did not 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• dnf5-specs(7)
• Patterns specification <#specs-misc-ref-label>

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👑 Author 👑

See AUTHORS.md in dnf5 source distribution. (the girlies who made this happen 💜)

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⭐ Copyright ⭐

Contributors to the dnf5 project.

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that reading session 🎀 this was dnf5 — written by the contributors to the dnf5 project — dated Sep 24, 2026. go forth and provides everything your heart desires 💖✨🦋