rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros.

2011-12-07 2 min read Fedora
Lets first install the rpmorphan package:
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        &nbsp;<span class="kw2">sudo</span> <span class="kw2">yum install</span> rpmorphan
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and here is the description of the package:
rpmorphan finds "orphaned"[1] packages on your system. It determines
which packages have no other packages depending on their installation,
and shows you a list of these packages.  It intends to be clone of
deborphan Debian tools for rpm packages.

It will try to help you to remove unused packages, for example:

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