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tux-junkie 01-14-2012 02:36 PM
How to clean-up broken/orphan files
 
i'm somewhat new to Fedora and i was wondering if there are any utilities similar to deborphan for Debian to clean up broken and orphan files. also, there is an 'apt-get autoclean' command for Debian. is there anything similar to this with yum?

Janus_Hyperion 01-14-2012 04:32 PM
There is
Code:
yum clean option
available. See the man page for what you are particularly looking for.

tux-junkie 01-14-2012 05:14 PM
so, 'yum clean all' would remove any broken packages from my system?

MartinStrec 01-14-2012 05:56 PM
'yum clean' cleans yum cache, you can choose what kind of cache you want to choose. It is similar to 'apt-get autoclean'. Both of those commands just clean cache. NONE of them can clean up broken installed packages from system.

If you want to reinstall broken packages, use 'yum reinstall <PACKAGE_NAME>'
For removing package, I recommend 'rpm -e <PACKAGE_NAME>' instead of 'yum remove <PACKAGE_NAME>' because yum removes all dependencies.

Janus_Hyperion 01-15-2012 12:23 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinStrec (Post 4574663)
'yum clean' cleans yum cache, you can choose what kind of cache you want to choose. It is similar to 'apt-get autoclean'. Both of those commands just clean cache. NONE of them can clean up broken installed packages from system.

If you want to reinstall broken packages, use 'yum reinstall <PACKAGE_NAME>'
For removing package, I recommend 'rpm -e <PACKAGE_NAME>' instead of 'yum remove <PACKAGE_NAME>' because yum removes all dependencies.
Good point !


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