REMOVE-RETIRED-PAC(8)

💖 NAME 💖

remove-retired-packages — bestie's lil tool for yeeting packages that Fedora's distro straight up does not ship anymore 👋✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

remove-retired-packages [VERSION]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: Fedora retires packages sometimes. like, they're gone, no longer shipped, rip 🪦. and you might still have them chillin' on your system being all stale and forgotten.

enter remove-retired-packages — she's a script, and what she does is check which packages got retired (aka removed) between the current version of Fedora Linux and the version you're comparing against, which is VERSION. 🕵️‍♀️

and here's the cute part: if you pass no parameters at all, then VERSION just defaults to the current version minus one. so she'll happily do the math for you, no cap. 🧮💅

fr fr, VERSION is the whole vibe here — leave it out and she picks for you, pass it and you're the main character deciding.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• dnf(8)
• fedora-upgrade(8)
• https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Retirement_Process/

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🙈 BUGS 🙈

if something's giving broken, like, it's not working?? please report it at:

https://github.com/xsuchy/fedora-upgrade/issues

also super important 🔥: remove-retired-packages is built on top of DNF. so if you ever wanna snoop on what you actually did (iconic detective energy), you can go check dnf history. periodt. 💀✨

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💅 AUTHOR 💅

Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@redhat.com> 🫶

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this lil icon was brought to you by the remove-retired-packages manual (that's the REMOVE-RETIRED-PAC(8) situation), dated 08/19/2026. go forth and un-retire your vibe 💖🦋🌸