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On Thursday 22 January 2004 23:51, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > What is the quickest (or preferred) way of checking (in a
> > > bash script) if a given package is installed?
> >
> > I don't know if it would be the preferred way, but I think the
> > quickest would
> > be:
> >
> > PKG="sys-apps/portage"
> > [ -e /var/db/pkg/${PKG}-* ]
>
> or:
>
> qpkg -I | grep package_name
I don't have qpkg or any of that installed so I can't check, but isn't qpkg
written in python? If so, that method would be somewhat slower.
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Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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