Installing .deb packages with apt-get

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 10:56 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Thus, I need to run a simulation before every operation,
> something that does NOT need to be done with yum because yum tells the
> user what it is going to do before doing it, and asks for
> confirmation. 

I don't know if you have seen my other post where I explained that you
don't need to run -s with apt-get either:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2007-May/114517.html