[Cialug] apt-get --pretend

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Mark Hesseltine wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 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.
> 

interesting, I always do --no-act

looks like you can do  --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act or 
-s/--simulate

timtowtdi, though I may need to start using --recon, much more special-ops

-barry