DNF5-AUTOREMOVE(8)

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version 5.4.6.0 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 DNF5-AUTOREMOVE 💖

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for dnf5-autoremove (that's the dnf5 section 8 one, if you're keeping score) — aka the Autoremove Command and honestly? she's a little chaotic but she's doing her best. let's get into it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dnf5 autoremove

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no arguments, no nonsense, just pure leaf-package elimination energy 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the autoremove command in DNF5 exists for one very specific purpose: yeeting the packages you don't need anymore. removing unneeded packages from the system, periodt.

and what counts as an "unneeded" package, you ask? okay so it's all the "leaf" packages — meaning packages that were originally installed as dependencies of user-installed packages, but which are no longer required by any such package. they came in as a plus-one, and now the party's over and nobody's claiming them. they're getting kicked out 🚪

but wait — installonly packages (e.g. kernels) are never automatically removed by this command, even if they were originally installed as dependencies. so your kernels are safe. no cap. 🔥

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --offline — store the transaction to be performed offline instead of doing it right now. see the offline command <#offline-command-ref-label>, dnf5-offline(8). saving it for later, iconic behavior ✨
  • --transient — this one is only applicable on bootc (bootable containers) systems, iykyk. it performs transactions using a transient overlay which will be lost on the next reboot. so yeah, it vanishes. gone. poof. 🦋 see also the persistence <#persistence-options-label> configuration option.
  • --store=PATH — store the current transaction in a directory at the specified PATH instead of running it. the stored transaction can later be performed by the replay command <#replay-command-ref-label>, dnf5-replay(8). lowkey genius right? 💜
heads up though: repository ids in the stored transaction are mangled to @stored_transaction(repo_id) — and this is required, because during replaying the stored repositories are recreated and they might collide with already present repositories. the one exception: this doesn't apply to the special @System repository. she's built different. 👑

🌈 Author 🌈

See AUTHORS.md in dnf5 source distribution. go give them their flowers, they earned them 💐

Contributors to the dnf5 project. every single one of them, absolute legends 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie! this was brought to you by the dnf5 crew, dated Sep 24, 2026 — so if you're reading this from the future, hiii 💖 mwah, stay leafy 🍓

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