Hopefully a quick one,
Is there a way to know the size of a package in YaST2 ?
I only have 50MB left in my root partition / (Btw, my /home is in a separate partition.) and I’m looking for a way to selectively delete package depending on it’s size.
Any suggestion?
Also, when we “remove” a package in YaST2, is it “completely” removed? or is there some residual rpm left? (of course /home/configs would be kept as it is an expected behavior).
Not sure if I completely understood the question. This command will output
the installed sizes and packages
rpm -qa --queryformat="%10{SIZE} %{NAME}
" | sort -k1,1n
In yast I have no idea.
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On 04/26/2011 07:36 PM, plucpilou wrote:
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> Also, when we “remove” a package in YaST2, is it “completely” removed?
> or is there some residual rpm left? (of course /home/configs would be
> kept as it is an expected behavior).
to get it all swept out, right click on the package in YaST and select
“Delete”…maybe it will pop up with a problem…read it…maybe if you
remove this one package it will render several other things
inoperative…it will give you a list of what will break…make a
decision…do that with all the packages you want to delete but before
clicking on the Accept at the bottom, go to “Options” and select
“Cleanup when deleting packages”—i think that dump most everything
associated with the package which is not a dependency of some other
retained package (see, when installing, if package A needs library C and
it exists on the drive because previously installed package B needed it,
it won’t install another C…so, if you then delete A it will tell you
you can’t delete C without breaking B–see??)
i think Martin nailed the other part of your question…
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Start Yast -> Software Management, switch to Repositories view, select “@System” repository in the left pane, in the right pane you’ll see all installed packages. Then click “Size” column header to sort the packages according the size (after the second click the packages will be ordered from biggest to smallest).
Then just select a package you want to remove and press ‘-’ key or select ‘Delete’ from context menu (right-click). If the package is needed by another package a popup with possible solutions will be displayed.
The package will be completely removed, but there might some config files left (so after reinstalling the package configuration is not lost) and also the package might create some extra files (e.g. as a cache) which are not listed as a part of the package and these files will not be removed of course.
Thanks martin_helm,
The
rpm -qa --queryformat="%10{SIZE} %{NAME}
" | sort -k1,1n
command sure did the trick. I finally got rid in an effective way of all those carelessly installed packages.
On the gui side:
Islezak said:
Start Yast -> Software Management, switch to Repositories view, select “@System” repository in the left pane,
But I could not find the “@System”
Then click “Size” column header to sort the packages according the size (after the second click the packages will be ordered from biggest to smallest).
I would guess that, like in ubuntu’s synaptic, we could add/remove various column. Instead in YaST2, I can only find the Short list view (Small Icon and name of package) and the Icon view… No columns. Am I missing a option or a section?
Thank you all for your answers!
Greatly appreciated
It appears in the list of configured repositories. Maybe this screenshot, although I originally posted in a different thread, is somewhat helpful:
http://thumbnails38.imagebam.com/12820/f9a473128198854.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/f9a473128198854)
ETA: The Size column is just not visible, but it is there.
