Alien help for newbie.

[Le grand pinguin]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:06:41PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
>  --- 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

Hmm, is this a question? '--dry-run' will dpkg make to try
running the given action without actually performing it. So
you can test installation with:

 dpkg --dry-run -i my_packet.deb


Still unclear?

  RalfD

> Cheers,
> 
> Brian
> 
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