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Linux: Remove installed RPM packages manually

Sometimes you screw up an application and are unable to use rpm -e to remove them from your system. Here is how you go about doing that:

To find installed RPM packages:

rpm -qa | grep <string>

To remove:

rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches <package name>

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