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:

after a distribution upgrade
when you want to suppress packages after some tests

Several tools are also provided :

rpmusage - display rpm packages last use date
rpmdep - display the full dependency of an installed rpm package
rpmduplicates - find programs with several version installed

Yum offers a program called ‘package-cleanup’ which you can use to carry out similar tasks.

[1] Note that orphan is used in the sense of Debian’s deborphan, and is NOT the same as Fedora orphaned packages which are packages that have no current maintainer.

Now, you can simply run the command

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        rpmorphan
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to see a list of the orphaned packages on the system 🙂

And once you have verified that you want to remove all the listed application, then you can run the following command:

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        sudo yum remove $(rpmorphan |tr '\n' ' ')
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rpmorphan – deborphan for the rpm based distros.

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