[SOLVED] How to clean-up broken/orphan files

tux-junkie · 01-14-2012, 02:36 PM

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?

nonamedotc · 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.

nonamedotc · 01-15-2012, 12:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MartinStrec

'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 !