yum simulate install

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Published on 2012-03-22T16:51:36Z Indexed on 2012/03/22 17:32 UTC
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Coming from an ubuntu perspective, if I want to check to see what additional packages will be installed/upgraded I can use apt-get --simulate install <package name>

Is there something similar for yum? Our Red hat box (yum) is our production server, so I would like to see exactly what will be happening before I actually install some package.

Couldn't really find a good solution, someone suggested:

yum --assumeno install <package name>

but this returned:

Command line error: no such option: --assumeno

Using yum version 3.2.22

Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome.

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