can yum remove old packages?

[Claude Jones]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 10:58 am, sean wrote:
> on a yum update,  yum didn't do cleanup.
>
> Now I have a lot of duplicate packages, e.g.:
>
>   rpm -q libidn-devel
> libidn-devel-0.5.6-1
> libidn-devel-0.5.15-1
>
> How can I erase all the old packages?
You might want to take a look at Synaptic package manager. It will warn you of 
the duplicate packages when you run it. It presents a nice graphical 
interface that lets you quickly see the packages, select the old ones, and 
remove. It will be still be tedious given what you say a couple of posts 
later, but, perhaps less so than the command line method. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA