When I do yum remove, it sometimes keeps a package's configuration files.
Is there anyway to remove a package completely, without keeping any file that belonged to the package?
I am running CentOS.
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Can you provide an example of configuration files are left after yum remove? – ZaSter Feb 08 '13 at 01:53
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1~/.mozilla left by firefox, for example – Howard Feb 08 '13 at 05:31
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3~/.mozilla is created only when you run the firefox program. It is not created by the firefox package. Run the command `rpm -qf ~/.mozilla` and it will report that that file is not part of any package. – ZaSter Feb 08 '13 at 22:37
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@ZaSter : When I removed quagga package it kept all its config files in /etc/quagga (Files like zebra.conf, ospfd.conf, bgpd.conf) which should have been removed along with package itself. If it is by design to keep them, then please provide a command that will also remove the configuration files. – TusharG May 21 '15 at 07:03
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@TusharG That's correct. For RPM packages that contain declared configuration files, `yum remove` does not remove those files. – ZaSter May 22 '15 at 16:41
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Check the Deleting packages with yum section in the HOW TO
There says:
In any event, the command syntax for package removal is:
# yum remove package1 [package2 package3...]
As noted above, it removes package1 and all packages in the dependency tree that depend on package1, possibly irreversibly as far as configuration data is concerned.
As a quick way you can try:
yum remove package
yum install package
Also here is an interesting for. And the question can help you.
The one that keeps configs in a backup is rpm -e
What you can do is find out what is in a rpm using:
rpm -ql packagename
or
rpm -qlp packagename if the package is not yet installed.
then, you can manually make the modifications you want.
Hope this helps!
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2I guess it is probably impossible to remove all files that ever came with a package... but still your recommendation is helpful. – Howard Feb 08 '13 at 21:47
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