On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:55:23AM +0100, Russell wrote: > or at least I assume it's about apt-get. I just want to know if a > particular package is installed on my system, and I can't seem to find > that kind of option in the man pages for apt-get, dpkg or dselect.
Then you did not read the dpkg manpage very well, I'm sorry to have to say. The dselect manpage is not very thorough. Look at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0107/msg00641.html for a proposed better dselect manpage. > Is there something like "apt-get --is-it-installed packagename" ? It's called either "dpkg --status pkgname" or "dselect select". The preferred user interface is dselect. Cheers, Joost
