On Wednesday 07 Sep 2005 00:00, Claude Jones wrote: > On Tuesday 06 September 2005 10:58 am, 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? > > You might want to take a look at Synaptic package manager. It will warn you > of the duplicate packages when you run it. It presents a nice graphical > interface that lets you quickly see the packages, select the old ones, and > remove. It will be still be tedious given what you say a couple of posts > later, but, perhaps less so than the command line method. Indeed, we should mention that Synaptic is a front end for APT :) I have found (just my experience) APT to handle the "OP's" situations quite well, however I have never experienced problems with that large number of dupes. Just a thought.. Colin -- Fedora Core 4, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.13-ck1 KDE-Redhat-3.4.2-1.2.fc4.kde Registered Linux user number #342953
