Clear YUM/RPM data
- Linux onlyThis script improves your privacy on Linux
- Single actionThis page belongs to a script, containing basic changes to achieve a task.
- Impact: High
System Functionality / Data Loss Risk: High
This action improves privacy with high impact when you run the recommended script.
- Bash (Shell script)These changes use Linux system commands to update your settings.
- Sudo/root requiredThis script requires privilege access to do the system changes
- Fully reversible
You can fully restore this action (revert back to the original behavior) using this website.
The restore/revert methods provided here can help you fix issues.
Overview
The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM) is a free and open-source command-line package-management utility for computers running the Linux operating system using the RPM Package Manager 1. It has been shipped by default by distros such as Fedora, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, CentOS 2.
YUM stores cached packages, header files, and metadata to determine the remote availability of packages,
SQLite database cache, rpmdb cache 3. Every YUM plugin may store its own cache 3. yum clean all
cleans all temporary files.
See also: "Yum Package Manager homepage".
This script should only be used by advanced users.
This script is not recommended for daily use as it breaks important functionality.
Consider creating a system backup before doing any changes.
Sources
- "Yum Package Manager homepage". (2022).
Original: http://yum.baseurl.org
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20221029221419/http://yum.baseurl.org/ - Yum. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org. (2022).
Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum_%28software%29
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20221029152219/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum_%28software%29 - YUM: Yellowdog Updater, Modified. www.phy.duke.edu. (2022).
Original: https://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_article/yum_article.pdf
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20221029152251/https://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_article/yum_article.pdf - yum: Yellowdog Updater Modified - Linux man page. linux.die.net. (2022).
Original: https://linux.die.net/man/8/yum
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20221029152334/https://linux.die.net/man/8/yum
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- Difficulty: Medium
- ≈ 5 instructions
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if ! command -v 'yum' &> /dev/null; then
echo 'Skipping because "yum" is not found.'
else
yum clean all --enablerepo='*'
fi
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- Difficulty: Medium
- ≈ 3 instructions
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Copy the code: - 3
Paste & run
Paste the commands into terminal application and press Enter to run.Some changes require a system restart to take effect
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