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How to remove unneeded dependencies from a Yum install?
yum autoremove . Which will remove unneeded dependencies from that installed package. autoremove is very much an alias of remove –setopt=clean_requirements_on_remove=1 but for some reasons, is still undocumented.
How do you remove a package from Yum?
You can use the package-cleanup command from the yum-utils package to list “leaf nodes” in your package dependency graph. These are packages that can be removed without affecting anything else: This will produce a list of “libraries” on which nothing else depends. In most cases you can safely remove these packages.
Which is the correct command to remove Yum?
“-q” is useful on some systems which print “Setting up yum” otherwise, causing this command to remove yum. And that’s not what you want. In newer Fedoras with dnf, you can use dnf repoquery –unneeded as a replacement for package-cleanup –leaves.
How can I tell whether a package has been previously installed via yum?
I am trying to write a script that installs packages, but if it fails at any point later in the script rolls back whatever it installed. Of course if the user has already previously installed a package I don’t want to uninstall it out from under them. How can my script tell whether a package has been previously installed via yum?
Can you install a package with Yum install?
If you install a package with yum install, say pdftk, it will pull in a lot of dependencies:
Where do I find Yum in CentOS 10?
A necessary prerequisite to finding commands in /sbin and /usr/sbin, but yum is in /usr/bin; and in any case, if “locate yum” comes up empty, the correct root path will probably not help. 😉 Apparently rpm is not installed either.
Is there a way to update YUM automatically?
That if they don’t publish a package containing the required configuration. You certainly can also download all needed packages, and install them “by hand” with yum. But that way you won’t get updates automatically.