I just installed Fedora 22 and - much to my surprise/anger - I found that yum has been replaced by DNF. I don't want DNF, no matter how superior it is compared to yum - how can I completely switch back to yum without downgrading my OS?
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You can just keep using it. It's still installed at /usr/bin/yum-deprecated. If using a different name is causing you pain, you can edit the /usr/bin/yum script to point to this instead of to dnf.
While DNF is intended to be mostly compatible, especially for most common operations, it's not perfectly identical, so for compatibility reasons the older package will be available for the foreseeable future.
(Disclaimer: I work on Fedora, but am not directly involved in dnf or yum.)
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1As an aside, I'd like to understand why this change produces such a strong emotional reaction. Can you elaborate on that?– mattdmCommented Feb 2, 2016 at 16:08
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I know it sounds like I'm a luddite or something, but I don't enjoy having things forced down my throat. I have used yum for years, without issue, and I know yum very well. To me, it does everything I want and works fine. I don't have any need for the "features" or "improvements" provided by dnf - I have fast hardware, a very fast internet connection, etc. I would have appreciated it if I had even known that dnf was going to replace yum before I suddenly logged on to a fresh install of Fedora and found yum didn't work - not even a deprecation notice. Just a "command not found." Commented Feb 2, 2016 at 16:45
yum has been superceded by dnf. It was forked off during the Fedora 18 release. You can attempt to make them live side-by-side, but you may be unsuccessful. Future releases will not have yum. Yum is no longer updated or worked on.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceYumWithDNF
Side note: F22 and F23, as of 1/30/2016, are the only releases supported and updated regularly. Downgrading to another release will be pointless.
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That's sad, I suppose I'll have to switch to CentOS. Thanks for the answer! Commented Jan 30, 2016 at 14:56