remove unused / orphan packages
hi
using Fedora 9. not sure what the best/most effective method to remove unused packages from the system. i noticed on these forums a package called rpmorphan but this is not available in the fedora repo. I downloaded rpmorphan from sourceforge but on attempting to install this it complained about missing perl-base yet this is not in the fedora repos and a download from sourceforge went on to request nested dependencies. I dont want to start installing package after package and dependencies because this is precisely why I want to "cull" my packages in the first place. I've installed a plethora of packages over time (many of which were used once and I no longer keep/use). I dont have a record and was hoping there is some "automated" means? any ideas? |
Hi.
I thought yum was supposed to handle the dependency chores. The man yum page (CentOS 5, Fedora 8, SuSE 11) at least suggests that. I have used it only on SuSE, however ... cheers, makyo |
apt-rpm is available for rpm-based distros too.
Actually you want to uninstall some packages without breaking things. You can as well do that with rpm. |
sorry guys...
to clarify... i thought , like you , i was familiar with rpm , apt and yum. what i am looking for PLEASE is a concrete solution specific commands would be useful ;) |
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[root@localhost daz]# package-cleanup --leaves |
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