Date: 2017sep7 Distro: RedHat/Fedora/CentOS Q. Linux: How can I fake the uninstall of a package? A. Use the --justdb option of rpm. eg:

rpm -e --justdb --nodeps systemd

I have used this when `yum check` gave errors like:

glibc-devel-2.12-1.107.el6_4.5.x86_64 has missing requires of glibc-headers = ('...', '...', '...');

I did a fake remove of glibc-headers then installed it with

yum install glibc-headers

And the correct version was installed.