Alien help for newbie.

[Bob Nielsen]

Sorry, somehow in my mind I merged --dry-run with --no-act.

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:46:00PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
>  --- Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> skrev: 
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:45:54AM +0100, Brian
> > Durant wrote:
> > > I would like to install stardict-2.4.4-1.i386.rpm
> > and
> > > some noarch.rpm dictionary files into my Warty
> > 4.10,
> > > but I haven't been able to find any documentation
> > that
> > > I would understand as a newbie. I get the sudo
> > alien
> > > -i stardict*, but how do I check if an install of
> > > stardict-2.4.4-1.i386.rpm will even work before I
> > do a
> > > real install that would also include the
> > noarch.rpm
> > > files. Am I just nervous and making this out to be
> > a
> > > bigger problem than it is? I just don't want to
> > break
> > > anything in the system.
> > 
> > It would probably be better to run alien without the
> > -i option and
> > convert each of them to a .deb package, then run
> > dpkg -i to install
> > them. You could run 'dpkg --no-run -i
> > <filename.deb>' to simulate
> > the installation.  
> 
> OK, I got the .RPMs converted to .deb packages, but
> dpkg returned the following:
> 
> /stardict $ dpkg --no-run -i stardict_2.4.4-2_i386.deb
> dpkg: unknown option --no-run
> 
> 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
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian