Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:23:51 -0700 

On Monday 26 June 2006 20:38, Martin Paraskevov wrote:
> rpm lets you check whether a packege has been installed.
> is this possible to do with apt-get or some other tool as well?
>
> - martin


$ apt-cache policy apt
apt:
  Installed: 0.6.44.2
  Candidate: 0.6.44.2
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.44.2 0
        990 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
        600 http://ftp2.de.debian.org sid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


Stephen

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