Make the DNF package manager faster and more efficient.

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Here is how to speed up the DNF package manager on your Rocky, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, or any other Linux distribution that uses Dnf as its package manager.

The default configuration of DNF is not optimized for speed. We can add a few tweaks to the dnf.conf and make it faster.

The tweak we can do is to set the maximum parallel downloads to 20. By default, it is set to 3.

To do this, we need to edit the dnf.conf file. Let’s use nano and edit the file.

sudo vi /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

Now add the following lines to the end of the dnf.conf file.

max_parellel_downloads=20

Save the file by pressing Escape, then :wq, and enter.

Now when you use DNF you should have a speed increase.

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