Information about the package, rpmorphan, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rpmorphan package is designed for, List packages that have no dependencies (like deborphan).
Package Name:
rpmorphan
Summary:
List packages that have no dependencies (like deborphan)
Description:
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.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.15
Release:
1.el6
Size:
71 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the rpmorphan package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install rpmorphan
This command will install rpmorphan on the server.
yum remove rpmorphan
This command will un-install rpmorphan on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rpmorphan, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove rpmorphan
This command will un-install rpmorphan on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove rpmorphan when using the -y flag.
yum update rpmorphan
This command will update rpmorphan to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rpmorphan, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update rpmorphan
This command will update rpmorphan to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove rpmorphan when using the -y flag.
yum info rpmorphan
This command will show you core information about the rpmorphan package.
yum deplist rpmorphan
This command will show you the dependencies for rpmorphan. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update rpmorphan
This command will check if there is an update waiting on rpmorphan. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.