Re: Can apt be steered?
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:36:57PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
> Michael Epting <epting@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find.
> > > You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use
> > > --dummy-run to do a dummy run).
> >
> > 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'.
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