Fedora and RHEL packages (dnf)

The dnf manager installs packages on Fedora, RHEL, CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, and other distributions that use dnf. It uses sudo when mise is not running as root.

[bootstrap.packages]
"dnf:openssl-devel" = "latest"
"dnf:postgresql-server" = "latest"
"dnf:bash" = "5.2.26-3.fc40" # version-release pin

mise bootstrap packages apply --manager dnf --dry-run
mise bootstrap packages apply --manager dnf

Prerequisites

The manager is available on Linux when dnf is on PATH. Systems that have only yum, such as CentOS 7, are not supported. On other machines, its entries show as skipped.

Package names

Use the package name, such as openssl-devel, not a capability or file path. mise checks installed state with rpm -q, which looks up package names.

Version pins

mise passes a pin to dnf as name-version or name-version-release. A version-only pin, such as "5.2.26", accepts any release of that version. The Fedora pin above is only an example: release strings differ between distributions and releases. Pick a version from the target's enabled repositories; mise does not add a repository or fetch an archived RPM.

What mise runs

Operation	Command
Check installed state (no sudo)	rpm -q <packages>
Install	dnf install -y <packages>
apply --update	dnf install -y --refresh <packages>
Upgrade	dnf upgrade -y --refresh <packages>

Without --update, dnf refreshes its metadata when its own cache expires. upgrade acts only on configured packages that are installed.

Remove packages

mise does not remove dnf packages. Deleting an entry leaves the package installed; run dnf remove yourself.