Re: can yum remove old packages?

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Subject: Re: can yum remove old packages?
From: Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:05:29 -0500
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sean wrote:

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?

I know of no easy automatic way to do it, other than manually. In thiscase,

rpm -e libidn-devel-0.5.6-1

-- Rex

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