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danst0

Member

Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 12

pacman --pretend

Hi,

is there a --pretend feature for pacman?
So that it just prints what it wants to do...

It would be very nice for using the output in scripts/superkaramba!

Thank you,

Daniel

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: pacman --pretend

is there a --pretend feature for pacman?

No, but there is a search feature in the forum:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … an+pretend

Your question answered, before you post it. How cool is that? 

T-Dawg

Forum Fellow

From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: pacman --pretend

just hit the "n" button when it asks for confirmation.

twiistedkaos

Member

Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: pacman --pretend

Hi,

is there a --pretend feature for pacman?
So that it just prints what it wants to do...

It would be very nice for using the output in scripts/superkaramba!

Thank you,

Daniel

I'm pretty sure:

pacman --help

or

man pacman

would give you all the commands pacman has, and "pretend" isn't one of theme. But as Penguin said above, just use N when it asked for a comfirmination and it won't install anything