If you’ve been wondering how to delete a package you mistakenly installed (or which is no longer needed) along with all its dependencies, here’s a neat way to achieve just that.
The idea is that whenever you use yum to perform some operation on packages, a transaction is created. If you installed a package along with its dependencies, then you can undo just that by undoing that transaction.
Recover the transaction ID you want to undo
Let’s say I want to uninstall owncloud :
[root@sakana html]# yum history list owncloud
ID | Command line | Date and time | Action(s) | Altered
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6 | install owncloud | 2015-03-31 20:46 | Install | 99 EE
history list
[root@sakana html]#
Here, the transaction we are interested in has ID = 6.
Undo the transaction
Once we have that ID, we can just undo the transaction as follows :
[root@sakana html]# sudo yum history undo 6
Undoing transaction 6, from Tue Mar 31 20:46:01 2015
Dep-Install apr-1.5.1-1.fc20.x86_64 @updates
Dep-Install apr-util-1.5.3-1.fc20.x86_64 @updates
Dep-Install audit-libs-python-2.4.1-1.fc20.x86_64 @updates
Dep-Install checkpolicy-2.1.12-5.fc20.x86_64 @fedora
[Long list of packages and stuff...]
perl-libs x86_64 4:5.18.4-292.fc20 - 0.0
libzip x86_64 0.11.2-1.fc20 - 0.0
php-pdo x86_64 5.5.22-1.fc20 - 0.0
perl-Pod-Escapes noarch 1:1.04-292.fc20 - 0.0
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove 82 Packages (+49 Dependent packages)
Not installed 17 Packages
Installed size: 311 M
Is this ok [y/N]:
If you’re happy with the output, you can just proceed by typing Y and enter to validate.
Yum will then remove the listed packages, and you’re done.
(Credit : StackExchange)