On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 00:17 +0000, Philip Moller wrote: > Philip Moller wrote: > > > 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 > > > # man yum > > CLEAN OPTIONS > The following are the ways which you can invoke yum in clean mode. > > yum clean packages > Eliminate any cached packages from the system. Note that > packages are > not automatically deleted after they are downloaded. > > yum clean headers > Eliminate all of the files which yum uses to > determine the remote > availability of packages. Using this option will force > yum to download > all the headers the next time it is run. > > yum clean all > Runs yum clean packages and yum clean headers as above. ---- kindly explain how that is gonna help OP - I can't think of a way that running 'yum clean [anything or nothing]' is gonna help OP here. Perhaps I will learn something Craig
