can yum remove old packages?

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• From: sean <seandarcy2@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:58:18 -0400
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on a yum update,  yum didn't do cleanup.

Now I have a lot of duplicate packages, e.g.:

 rpm -q libidn-devel
libidn-devel-0.5.6-1
libidn-devel-0.5.15-1

How can I erase all the old packages?

sean

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