On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:36:57PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > Michael Epting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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'.
