Q on yum cleanup

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 13:28 +0000, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > What does the cleanup do and will any damage have happened?
> > what cleanup are you talking about?
> 
> After yum does the install of the rpms, the next thing it does is to say
> "cleaning up <rpm name>"
> 

Right, that means it is removing the older version of the package that's
still on the system. 

You need to look at your installed packages:
yum list installed


and look for duplicates, remove the older packages with:
yum remove package-ver-rel.arch

-sv