How to remove a package without removing dependencies in RHEL

When you remove a package with the command

yum remove PKG_NAME

yum will remove all other packages that are dependent on the package you are removing.

To remove a package without removing its dependency on Red Hat Linux or RHEL based distributions like CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux, you can run the command

rpm -e --nodeps PKG_NAME

If you want to keep files, just remove the entry, use

rpm -e --nodeps --justdb PKG_NAME

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