How to clear the YUM cache

What is yum?

The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum) is an open-source command-line package-management utility for Linux operating systems using the RPM Package Manager. Yum allows automatic updates, package and dependency management, on RPM-based distributions. Like the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT)

How to clear the yum cache:

When a package is downloaded, installed and is removed there is a chance that the package may still be saved/stored in the yum’s cache. So to clean all the cached packages from the enabled repository cache directory, login as root and execute the following:

#yum clean packages

To purge the old package headers information completely, execute the execute the command below:

#yum clean headers

To clean metadata for each enabled repository, execute the command below:

#yum clean metadata

If you wish to clean all the cached files from any enabled repository at once, execute the command:

#yum clean all