dnf5-builddep - Man Page
Builddep Command
Synopsis
dnf5 builddep [options] [<package>...]
Description
Install missing dependencies for building an RPM package.
WARNING:
Build dependencies in a source package (i.e. src.rpm) might be different than you would expect because dependencies were evaluated according macros set on the package build host.
Options
- -D "macro expr", --define="macro expr"
- Define a rpm macro. Set the value "expr" to the macro "macro" when parsing spec files. Does not apply for source rpm files. 
- --with=OPTION, --without=OPTION
- Enable or disable conditional build OPTION when parsing spec files. Does not apply for source rpm files. 
- --allowerasing
- Allow removing of installed packages to resolve any potential dependency problems. 
- --skip-unavailable
- Allow skipping packages that are not possible to downgrade. All remaining packages will be downgraded. 
- --allow-downgrade
- Enable downgrade of dependencies when resolving the requested operation. 
- --no-allow-downgrade
- Disable downgrade of dependencies when resolving the requested operation. 
- --from-repo=REPO_ID,...
- Packages (or their provides) explicitly specified on the command line will only be looked up in the specified repositories. These repositories are automatically enabled. Repository enabling and disabling still applies. Dependencies of these packages will be resolved from any enabled repository. 
- --spec
- Treat command line arguments following this option as spec files. 
- --srpm
- Treat command line arguments following this option as source rpms. 
- --offline
- Store the transaction to be performed offline. See offline command, dnf5-offline(8). 
- --store=PATH
- Store the current transaction in a directory at the specified PATH instead of running it. The stored transaction can be performed by the replay command, dnf5-replay(8). 
Arguments
- <package>
- Either path to .src.rpm, .nosrc.rpm or .spec file or package available in a repository. 
Examples
- dnf builddep foobar.spec
- Install the needed build requirements, defined in the foobar.spec file. 
- dnf builddep foobar-1.0-1.src.rpm
- Install the needed build requirements, defined in the foobar-1.0-1.src.rpm file. 
- dnf builddep foobar-1.0-1
- Look up foobar-1.0-1 in enabled repositories and install build requirements for its source rpm. 
- dnf builddep -D 'scl python27' python-foobar.spec
- Install the needed build requirements for the python27 SCL version of python-foobar. 
- dnf builddep --without=selinux foobar.spec
- Install the needed build requirements except those for optional SELinux support. 
Author
See AUTHORS.md in dnf5 source distribution.
Copyright
Contributors to the dnf5 project.
Referenced By
The man page dnf-builddep(8) is an alias of dnf5-builddep(8).
Sep 19, 2025 dnf5