yum get rid of "unfinished transactions remaining"

Question

yum xxx
...
There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.

I don't want to finish the transaction, how do I just nuke it?

Running yum clean all doesn't do it. Running yum-complete-transaction and answering "N" to the prompt also no, it just said "Not removing old transaction files"

rogerdpack · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-15T20:22:03.013

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This worked

 sudo yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only

from here

edited Oct 15 '18 at 20:22

answered Oct 15 '18 at 17:41

rogerdpack

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works like a charm on CentOS 6.10 x86. – alphaGeek Nov 02 '20 at 11:33
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I get this error, but the command, even though it suggests it for me, does not seem to work on centos7 core – gstlouis Nov 05 '20 at 20:34

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 07 '22 at 14:33

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On CentOS 7 you should first run:

yum install yum-utils

then run:

sudo yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only

edited Jan 07 '22 at 14:33

Stephen Kitt

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answered Jan 07 '22 at 13:56

Danniel Shalev

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This is very similar to the other answer - it's probably better to edit that to say that yum-utils must be installed, rather than writing a new answer that's mostly duplicate. – Toby Speight Jan 07 '22 at 14:46

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