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| Posted by RAmoss, 03-23-2010, 12:28 PM |
| i have a webserver and im trying to remove unneeded packages...
1) i want to remove all *-devel packages, whats the best way and is it safe todo yum remove *-devel?
2) i have the following groups installed...
Installed Groups:
DNS Name Server
Dialup Networking Support < do i need?
Editors < do i need?
Legacy Network Server < do i need?
Legacy Software Support < do i need?
Mail Server
MySQL Database
Network Servers < do i need?
System Tools < do i need?
Text-based Internet < do i need?
is it safe to remove them?
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| Posted by techstar, 03-23-2010, 06:28 PM |
| yum remove *-devel' can definitely break your server down.
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| Posted by david510, 03-24-2010, 04:57 AM |
| Are you sure you need to remove all devel packages? Many needed binaries comes with the devel packages. Have you collected a list?
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| Posted by ClaudiuPopescu, 03-24-2010, 06:08 AM |
| Are you running out of disk space or what?
Removing devel packages will break your system eventually.
Let's take for example editors, do you really need them?
Sure you do, this is unless you are using only winscp or mc as editing tools.
The best way of having a minimal system is to install it like this, only install the system without any additional packages.
And after install what you need, that's the easiest and safest way.
Unless you are an expert in Linux operating systems.
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| Posted by Crashus, 03-24-2010, 06:44 AM |
| do not remove anything as long as it is working fine especially *devel packages. Just leave it alone.
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| Posted by Sileep Kumar M S, 03-24-2010, 07:38 PM |
| Why you want to remove devel packages?
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| Posted by VIPoint, 03-25-2010, 02:40 AM |
| If you want to remove unneeded packages then use yum clean . SSh to the server and execute "man yum" or "yum --help" to get more details about different commands. You can also refer to http://fedora.lsu.edu/yum.php
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