How To Remove a Package Without the Dependencies (yum/rpm)

Author: erics, January 9th, 2018

To remove a specific package without its dependencies use rpm:

rpm -qa | grep pecl
rpm -e --nodeps php55-pecl-jsonc php55-pecl-jsonc-devel

1 2	rpm -qa \| grep pecl rpm -e --nodeps php55-pecl-jsonc php55-pecl-jsonc-devel

As always, YMMV!

How To Upgrade PHP to PHP53 On CentOS

Author: erics, August 22nd, 2011

# service httpd stop
# yum erase php-common php
# yum install php53*
# service httpd start

# service httpd stop

# yum erase php-common php

# yum install php53*

# service httpd start

To get mcrypt installed, read this post: http://www.ericmichaelstone.com/?p=4702