Alien help for newbie.

[Brian Durant]

 --- Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> skrev: 
> 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,

Sa right. Does the following that was in my last
posting look as if the package would be installed
correctly onto my system?

/stardict $ sudo dpkg --dry-run -i
stardict_2.4.4-2_i386.deb
Password:
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