CentOS 6: Clear the yum cache

Versions

CentOS 6.3

Overview

Ran into problems tonight after working installs of Hadoop of different versions where the yum installer would try to download the incorrect version. Required cleaning yum’s caches AND manually deleting the yum cache for the repo in /var/cache/yum.

Guide

Remove the repo

Note
replace $REPONAME below with the name of the repo to clear

Shell

sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/$REPONAME.repo

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sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/$REPONAME.repo
Clean all

Shell

sudo yum clean all

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sudo yum clean all
Delete the yum cache for the repo

Shell

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6/$REPONAME

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sudo rm -rf /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6/$REPONAME

Sources

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/sn-yum-maintenance.html

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