[Cialug] apt-get --pretend

[Mark Hesseltine]

On 8/9/07, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Every once in a while I want to run apt-get with the
> don't-really-do-it-just-show-me-what-you-would-do option.  I always
> forget what it is, so I look in the man page.  But when I try to
> forward slash search for it in the man page, I can't remember what
> it's called.  I end up searching for "pretend" or "fake" and then I'm
> stumped for what else it could be.
>
> This happens once a month or so.  Gentoo wants me back, I think.
>
> -todd
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It's -s for simulate

I suppose you could alias apt-get -pretend to apt-get -s, but you'd go
nuts on a different system.

P.S., nothing wrong with Gentoo either ;) (Gentoo at home, Debian on a
work server)

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Mark Hesseltine
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