Re: can yum remove old packages?

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

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?

I know of no easy automatic way to do it, other than manually.  In this 
case,
rpm -e libidn-devel-0.5.6-1

-- Rex