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5. rpm, the (R)ed Hat (P)ackage (M)anager
  


Installing or removing with --nodeps page 5 of 16


An alternative to using --force in the previous panel would be to remove the rpm using the --nodeps option. This disables rpm's internal dependency checking, and is not recommended in most circumstances. Nonetheless, it is occasionally useful:


# rpm -e --nodeps xsnow

# rpm -ivh xsnow-1.41-1.i386.rpm
xsnow                       ##################################################

You can also use --nodeps when installing an rpm. To re-iterate what was said above, using --nodeps is not recommended, however it is sometimes necessary:


# rpm -ivh --nodeps xsnow-1.41-1.i386.rpm
xsnow                       ##################################################

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