How to remove dangling images in docker/podman?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to remove dangling images in docker.

    Error response from daemon: conflict: unable to delete 793e72604650 (cannot be forced) - image has dependent 
    child images
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Docker
  • Podman

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