Debian – Can i install dnf on debian

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to setup do a image of a fedora distribution myself.
i would like to run the dnf package manager (fedora) on debian, as this tool allows to download and install rpm packages in an specified target dir.

Is there an repository , how can i get "dnf installed on a debian/jessie?

something like this would be great

apt-get install dnf

rpm and python3 are already installed. so i just need "dnf"

Best Answer

"yum" (predecessor to dnf) exists as package on debian.

apt-get install yum

As yum is to 95% compatible with "dnf" I could achieve what i originally wanted without "dnf", which I still would prefer, to avoid future problems.

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For each entry (stable, testing, unstable) you have pin-priority 500. You shouldn't use pin > 1000. I use 1001 only when I want to downgrade something. I have testing+sid+experimental entries specified in /etc/apt/sources.list and the following /etc/apt/preferences file:

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 130

The value 500 is default for unstable. So, let's try to check iceweasel:

# apt-cache policy iceweasel
iceweasel:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 17.0.10esr-1~deb7u1
  Version table:
     26.0-1 0
        130 http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages
     24.2.0esr-1 0
        500 http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
     17.0.10esr-1~deb7u1 0
        900 http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages

So, if I tried to install iceweasel, it would be downloaded from the testing branch because it has the highest priority.

Try to change the priorities to:

Package: *
Pin: release a=wheezy
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: kpcli
Pin: release a=jessie
Pin-Priority: 910

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