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Manage DNF repositories

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Manage DNF repositories

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- [Instructor] DNF repository configuration information is stored in /etc/yum.repos.d. DNF still uses the same directory that Yum did in the past. Let's cd there and look around. Type in cd /etc/yum.repos.d, and hit Enter, and then type in ls. All repository files in this directory have to end in .repo. If they don't, DNF will ignore them. Let's view a repository file. I'm using Rocky Linux. If you're using a different enterprise Linux distribution, your repositories may be named differently. Type in cat rocky.repo, and hit Enter. There are eight repositories in this one file. We'll focus on the baseos repository near the top. Each repository name is in square brackets. The next line down is the descriptive name of the repository. The third line is the list of repository mirrors. DNF will try to find the fastest mirror to use. The fourth line is commented out. If there was not a mirror list, then the repository would…

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