Alien help for newbie.

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:46:00 +0100 (CET), Brian Durant
<linuxnewbiedk at yahoo.dk> wrote:
> dpkg help suggests: --no-act|--dry-run|--simulate Just
> say what we would do - don't do it
> 
> that returned:
> 
> /stardict $ dpkg --no-act|--dry-run|--simulate
> stardict_2.4.4-2_i386.deb
> dpkg: need an action option
> 
> Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it
> through `less' or `more' !
> bash: --dry-run: command not found
> bash: --simulate: command not found
> 

The | character, in this context, just means 'or.' (i.e., use one of
them). Try the --dry-run option.

-Eamonn