Installing applications and development tools via AppStream

From the previous recipe, we’re familiar with how to search for and list applications in AppStreams; let’s now dive into installing applications and development tools via AppStream.

How to do it…

Building from the last recipe, in which we examined nodejs, let’s go ahead and install it. There’s more than one way to do this. You can enable the module and then use the standard dnf install [package(s)] command to install the packages:

# dnf module enable nodejs
# dnf install nodejs npm

You can also use the standard dnf commands without specifying modules and the default module will get enabled as part of the transaction:

# dnf install nodejs npm

Or, the preferred way is to tap directly into the new set of dnf module commands and simply run dnf module install [module name(s)]:

# dnf module install nodejs

The output is shown in the following screenshot:

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