Alien help for newbie.

[Brian Durant]

 --- Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com>
skrev: 
> 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.

/stardict $ sudo dpkg --dry-run
stardict_2.4.4-2_i386.deb
dpkg: need an action option

Cheers,

Brian