rpmorphan finds "orphaned" 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
- rpmextra : find installed packages not in distribution
Note for Fedora users
- 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.
- Yum offers a program called 'package-cleanup' which, called with
--leavesoption, can show quickly a list of unused library packages. Rpmorphan is an extended version with filters, gui, etc ...
Note for Mandriva users
- the 'urpme --auto-orphans' command show quickly a a list of unused library packages. Rpmorphan is an extended version with filters, gui, etc ...
| Licence | ||
|---|---|---|
| open-source software on | Gnu General Public Licence | |
| Software | ||
| status | version | date |
| stable | 1.10 | 2011-07-08 |
| development | - | - |
| Author | ||
| Eric Gerbier |  |
page changed on 2011-07-08
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