package-cleanup (1) Linux Manual Page
package-cleanup – clean up locally installed, duplicate, or orphaned packages
Synopsis
package-cleanup [options] <item …>Description
package-cleanup is a program for cleaning up the locally-installed RPMs.General Options
- -c <config file>
- Use alternative config file (default is /etc/yum.conf).
- -h, –help
- Help; display a help message and then quit.
- -q, –quiet
- Print out nothing unnecessary.
- -v, –version
- Report program version and exit.
- -y
- Agree to anything asked.
- –leaves
- List leaf nodes in the local RPM database. Leaf nodes are RPMs that are not relied upon by any other RPM.
- –orphans
- List installed packages which are not available from currently configured repositories. This is identical to "yum list extras", which may provide better output.
- –oldkernels
- Remove old kernel and kernel-devel packages.
- –problems
- List dependency problems in the local RPM database. If any problems are found it will exit with an exit code of 1.
- –dupes
- Scan for duplicates in the local RPM database.
- –cleandupes
- Scan for duplicates in the local RPM database and clean out the older versions.
- –count <COUNT>
- Number of duplicate/kernel packages to keep on the system (default 2)
Leaves Options
- –all
- When listing leaf nodes also list leaf nodes that are not libraries.
- –leaf-regex
- A package name that matches this regular expression will be considered a leaf.
- –exclude-devel
- When listing leaf nodes do not list development packages.
- –exclude-bin
- When listing leaf nodes do not list packages with files in bin directories.
Oldkernels Options
- –keepdevel
- Do not remove kernel-devel packages when removing kernels
Examples
- List all dependency problems:
- package-cleanup –problems
- List all packages that are not in any Yum repository:
- package-cleanup –orphans
- Remove old kernels keeping 3 and leaving old kernel-devel packages installed:
- package-cleanup –oldkernels –count=3 –keepdevel
- List all leaf packages with no files in a bin directory whose name begins with either ‘perl’ or ‘python’:
- package-cleanup –leaves –exclude-bin –leaf-regex="^(perl)|(python)"
Files
As package-cleanup uses YUM libraries for retrieving all the information, it relies on YUM configuration for its default values like which repositories to use. Consult YUM documentation for details:
/etc/yum.conf
/etc/yum/repos.d/
/var/cache/yum/
See Also
yum.conf (5)
http://yum.baseurl.org/
Authors
See the Authors file included with this program.