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[YUM] Remove a package without removing it's father?

Hi,

I have a package A, which is depended from package B. Now I want to remove the package B. I was told the package A will be removed as well. But this is not what I want.

How can I just remove the package B?

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I have a package A, which is depended from package B. Now I want to remove the package B. I was told the package A will be removed as well. But this is not what I want.

As it said A is dependent on package B, so if you will remove package B then A will be useless without that. It is something like you are cutting legs of a chair and still want seating space of the chair to remain high.

Technically it is possible but not sure what it will screw up on the system. You can use --force with rpm to remove package B. Example:

Code:

rpm -e --force <package B>

The reason it is complaining about dependency is to make sure that system integrity is intact.

I try your command, but I got following:

Code:

# rpm -e --force guava-libraries

rpm: only installation, upgrading, rmsource and rmspec may be forced

Sorry my mistake, try:

Code:

rpm -e --nodeps guava-libraries