On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:51:50AM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:36:57PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > > Michael Epting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I didn't know about --dummy-run. I just searched man apt-get and man dpkg > > > and neither contains the word 'dummy'. I'll give that a shot. > > It's -s, or --dry-run (man apt-get) > I use -s all the time. I doesn't show version information or where the > file is coming from. So it doesn't help with helix or tdyc 'conflicts'. In that case you'd have to fall back on doing a download with no install I guess - when you download stuff it should you the site you're hitting and the version number it's fetching while the download is in progress. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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