Timothy Murphy wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
I got the yum-utils package and tried yum package-cleanup --problems
does not work. Do not know why not.
What do you mean by "does not work".
I just ran it on a system upgraded from FC-5 to Fedora-7,
and it worked perfectly - found 36 problems.
Your not 71 years old and didn't try yum first. Had you paid ANY
attention to what I wrote you would have said " of course it didn't
work, you don't use yum package-cleanup, just # package-cleanup". Yes I
found 5 problems and they are all fixed.
[I upgraded from FC-5 because I found this old system on the machine,
and didn't want to destroy my FC-6 system, in case Fedora-7 didn't work.
As it happened, it worked perfectly -
on a PIII Katmai 450MHz machine with 400MB RAM -
though it took about 6 hours to upgrade.]
This led me to install (too late!) the yum-fastestmirror package,
and I was quite impressed with the number of yum plugins available.
My impression is that good work is being done to make yum
as versatile as possible, and I certainly would not think of changing
to anything else.
Incidentally, I always run "package-cleanup --cleandupes" just in case;
it sorted out problems on another machine.
I will try --cleandupes as well. Good stuff.
Karl
