YUM/DNF Package History Analyzer: RHEL Admin Guide

Understanding your package transaction history is essential for system administration on RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora servers.

YUM vs DNF

DNF is the modern replacement for YUM, offering better performance and dependency resolution. Both maintain transaction history for auditing.

Essential Commands

dnf history list\ndnf history info 15\ndnf history rollback 15\nrpm -qa --last | head -20

Automated Analysis with dargslan-yum-history

pip install dargslan-yum-history\nyum-history\nyum-history --json

Part of the dargslan-toolkit — 107 Linux CLI tools in one install.

Resources

Download the free YUM/DNF cheat sheet PDF and browse our Linux eBook collection.