can yum remove old packages?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Sep 6 20:05:29 UTC 2005


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




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