How To Install dnf-plugin-ovl on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install dnf-plugin-ovl in Fedora 36. dnf-plugin-ovl is DNF plugin to work around overlayfs issues

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dnf-plugin-ovl on Fedora 36.

What is `dnf-plugin-ovl`

Workaround to run dnf on overlayfs. A port of yum-plugin-ovl to dnf.

We can use yum or dnf to install dnf-plugin-ovl on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnf-plugin-ovl.

Install dnf-plugin-ovl on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dnf-plugin-ovl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugin-ovl

Install dnf-plugin-ovl on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dnf-plugin-ovl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dnf-plugin-ovl

How To Uninstall dnf-plugin-ovl on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the dnf-plugin-ovl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dnf-plugin-ovl

dnf-plugin-ovl Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/ovl.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/ovl.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnf-plugins/ovl.py
/usr/share/doc/dnf-plugin-ovl
/usr/share/doc/dnf-plugin-ovl/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/dnf-plugin-ovl
/usr/share/licenses/dnf-plugin-ovl/LICENSE

References

dnf-plugin-ovl website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dnf-plugin-ovl on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).