Mark Command

Synopsis

dnf5 mark <subcommand> [global options] [<group-id>] <package-spec-NPFB>...

Description

The mark command in DNF5 is used to change reason of installed packages defined in package-spec-NPFB arguments.

Subcommands

user

Mark the package as user-installed.

This can be useful if any package was installed as a dependency and is desired to stay on the system when remove command along with clean_requirements_on_remove configuration option set to True is executed.

dependency

Mark the package as a dependency.

This can be useful if you as the user don’t need a specific package. The package stays installed on the system, but will be removed when remove command along with clean_requirements_on_remove configuration option set to True is executed.

You should use this operation instead of remove command if you’re not sure whether the package is a requirement of other user installed package on the system.

weak

Mark the package as a weak dependency.

group: Mark the package as installed by the group defined in group-id argument.

This can be useful if any package was installed as a dependency or the user and is desired to be protected and handled as a group member like during group remove command.

Options

--skip-unavailable: Allow skipping packages that are not installed on the system. All remaining installed packages will be marked.

--offline: Store the transaction to be performed offline. See offline command, dnf5-offline(8).
--store=PATH: Store the current transaction in a directory at the specified PATH instead of running it.

The stored transaction can be performed by the replay command, dnf5-replay(8).

Note that repository ids in the stored transaction are mangled to @stored_transaction(repo_id) this is required

because during replaying the stored repositories are recreated and they might collide with already present repositories

(this doesn’t apply to the special @System repository).

Examples

dnf5 mark user fuse-devel: Mark the fuse-devel package as user-installed.
dnf5 mark group xfce-desktop vim-enhanced: Mark the vim-enhanced package as installed by the xfce-desktop group.