dnfdragora is a DNF frontend, based on rpmdragora from Mageia (originally rpmdrake) Perl code.

dnfdragora is written in Python 3 and uses libYui, the widget abstraction library written by SUSE, so that it can be run using Qt 5, GTK+ 3, or ncurses interfaces.

Example with Qt:

Example with ncurses:

• https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf
• Version higher than 1.1.9 required.

• https://github.com/manatools/dnfdaemon/

• https://github.com/libyui/libyui
• Consider to check some not yet approved changes here https://github.com/anaselli/libyui

• https://github.com/manatools/libyui-mga

• https://github.com/anaselli/libyui-bindings/tree/mageia This fork is necessary to include also libyui-mga extension.
• For references, master is https://github.com/libyui/libyui-bindings

• libyui-gtk - https://github.com/libyui/libyui-gtk
• libyui-ncurses - https://github.com/libyui/libyui-ncurses
• libyui-qt - https://github.com/libyui/libyui-qt
• Consider here also to check some not yet approved changes at https://github.com/anaselli/libyui-XXX forks (where XXX is gtk, qt or ncurses)

• libyui-mga-gtk - https://github.com/manatools/libyui-mga-gtk
• libyui-mga-ncurses - https://github.com/manatools/libyui-mga-ncurses
• libyui-mga-qt - https://github.com/manatools/libyui-mga-qt

• Mageia:
  • dnfdragora: dnf install dnfdragora or urpmi dnfdragora
  • dnfdragora-gui: dnf install dnfdragora-<gui> or urpmi dnfdragora-<gui>
    • Replace <gui> with qt or gtk depending on desired toolkit
• Fedora:
  • dnfdragora: dnf install dnfdragora (installs all needed for use on terminal)
  • dnfdragora-gui: dnf install dnfdragora-gui (installs all needed for use in desktop environment)

• Packages needed to build:
  • cmake >= 3.4.0
  • python3-devel >= 3.4.0
  • optional: gettext (for locales)
  • optional: python3-sphinx (for manpages)
• Configure: mkdir build && cd build && cmake ..
  • -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr - Sets the install path, eg. /usr, /usr/local or /opt
  • -DCHECK_RUNTIME_DEPENDENCIES=ON - Checks if the needed runtime dependencies are met.
  • -DENABLE_COMPS=ON - Useful if your distribution uses COMPS for groups, eg. Fedora, RHEL, CentOS
• Build: make
• Install: make install
• Run: dnfdragora

See license file.