[RFC] doc: change recommendation for installation of tools on Fedora

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Jun 9 05:03:05 CEST 2025


The syntax changed with Fedora 41 and the old command is now:
$ sudo dnf group install development-tools

Not sure what is on RHEL 9 or later.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 doc/guides/howto/af_xdp_dp.rst    | 2 +-
 doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/howto/af_xdp_dp.rst b/doc/guides/howto/af_xdp_dp.rst
index 9da68e0bfa..b3681af2f7 100644
--- a/doc/guides/howto/af_xdp_dp.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/howto/af_xdp_dp.rst
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Build a DPDK container image (using Docker)
           python3-pyelftools \
           python38 \
           iproute
-      RUN dnf groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
+      RUN dnf group install -y development-tools
 
       # Create DPDK dir and copy over sources
       # Create DPDK dir and copy over sources
diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index 4c9d0c55c0..c53e79f7d5 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
     including standard atomics, for example: GCC (version 5.0+) or Clang (version 3.6+),
     and ``pkg-config`` or ``pkgconf`` to be used when building end-user binaries against DPDK.
 
-    * For RHEL/Fedora systems these can be installed using ``dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"``
+    * For RHEL/Fedora systems these can be installed using ``dnf group install development-tools``
     * For Ubuntu/Debian systems these can be installed using ``apt install build-essential``
     * For Alpine Linux, ``apk add alpine-sdk bsd-compat-headers``
 
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2.47.2



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