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Can I do a dry run with homebrew to see the details of what will be installed and how?

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Is it possible to run in a verbose mode where it doesn't actually install the package, but just details from where and how it will be install the package?

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Blankman Avatar asked Mar 25 '11 19:03

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You can run brew outdated to see a list of outdated packages that will be upgraded when running brew upgrade.

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Steven Bakhtiari Avatar answered Sep 27 '22 20:09

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