Alien help for newbie.

[Brian Durant]

 --- Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com>
skrev: 
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:06:41 +0100 (CET), Brian
> Durant
> <linuxnewbiedk at yahoo.dk> wrote:
> > /stardict $ sudo dpkg --dry-run
> > stardict_2.4.4-2_i386.deb
> > dpkg: need an action option
> 
> You still need the -i. Try sudo dpkg -i --dry-run
> stardict_2.4.4-2_i386.deb


/stardict $ sudo dpkg -i --dry-run
stardict_2.4.4-2_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package stardict.
(Reading database ... 72623 files and directories
currently installed.)
Unpacking stardict (from stardict_2.4.4-2_i386.deb)
...


Cheers,

Brian