On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:57:54PM -0500, Sam MacDonald wrote: > See, I'm trying to know what I'm doing before I do it. I like apt-get > but I want to know what it does before it does it, so to speak. I don't > want to just slap everything on the machine and then find out where it > gets put. Finding out after it's installed makes it difficult to > determine purpose and document. You could do apt-get install --download-only pkg This will download the .deb file to /var/cache/apt/archives Then you can go look at it. dpkg-deb can show a file listing, unpack it, etc. If you run mc you can just press F3 to view contents. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list