On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the easiest accurate way to check if a .deb has been installed > on a system, from a script? > > At the moment I'm using `dpkg -l | grep ...`, which is messy.
dpkg -s $package Return code is 0 for installed, 1 for not installed. Lindsay -- http://slug.org.au/ (the Sydney Linux Users Group) http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ (me) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
