How to install the latest package

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Hi! Recently I want to install a package on almalinux, e.g. nodejs, I found there are several versions available on repo.almalinux.org.

But when I use dnf to search the package on my host, it reports only one version, that is,

dnf search nodejs ----> nodejs-10.24.0......

In fact there are other version like 12.22, 14.20, 16.17 on Index of /almalinux/8.7/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/, I wonder how to install the other version of the interesting package, something like dnf install nodejs-16.17....?

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The el8 has streams as someone on Rocky forum pointed out to near identical question.

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I see, but there’s no efective and immediate solutions provided.

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There was link to RHEL documentation that shows the commands, wasn’t there?

Ahh, the “yum commands” is not directly on that page, but in Chapter 4. Installing RHEL 8 content Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Red Hat Customer Portal

$ dnf -q module list node\*
AlmaLinux 8 - x86_64 - AppStream - SBL
Name              Stream            Profiles                                         Summary                      
nodejs            10 [d]            common [d], development, minimal, s2i            Javascript runtime           
nodejs            12                common [d], development, minimal, s2i            Javascript runtime           
nodejs            14                common [d], development, minimal, s2i            Javascript runtime           
nodejs            16                common [d], development, minimal, s2i            Javascript runtime           
nodejs            18                common [d], development, minimal, s2i            Javascript runtime

Perhaps:

$ dnf module install nodejs:18
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Thanks! Thats exactly what I want!