Re: can yum remove old packages?

[Philip Moller <phmo@xxxxxxxx>]

sean wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote:
>
> > 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 
> > this case,
> > rpm -e libidn-devel-0.5.6-1
> >
> > -- Rex
>
> That may be a life's work. It was in the middle of a fc3->fc4 upgrade. 
> Over 300 packages updated.
>
> Sigh.
>
> sean
well, try (as root) :
# yum clean all