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Is it possible to force a yum installation despite missing dependencies?

I know it is possible to do that with rpm but so far I couldn't find any yum magic.

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  • No. A main goal of yum is to put an automatic dependency solver on top of rpm - breaking dependency chains by forcing a package install (or removal) while ignoring dependencies makes it kinda pointless.
    – Brian
    Jan 18, 2016 at 13:24
  • @Brian Make sense. Is there a concept of 'required'/'recommended' deps?
    – Cedric H.
    Jan 18, 2016 at 14:28
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    Not yet; that is currently in development. What is the actual problem you are trying to solve? Jan 18, 2016 at 15:19
  • The RPM for Cassandra has a dependency on Python 2.7 which I don't have on the system (CERN Scientific Linux - Red Hat version). However Cassandra doesn't need Python2.7 for itself, just for the database shell, which is usually run on another machine (where I'll have 2.7). That's really annoying.
    – Cedric H.
    Jan 18, 2016 at 16:52

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