How to find out if a package is installed?
somewhat earlier, I wrote:
> I'm trying to work out how to upgrade an existing installation
> of cern-httpd to use the new names. Before I blow away the existing
> /usr/sbin/httpd, I need to determine if it's cern's, apache's, or
> (possibly), somebody else's. Since cern and apache conflict, it
> should be one or the other's. What's the best way to do this?
And then today a message in debian-devel from Ian J. clued me to
the fact that I needed to pay more attention to the section in the
guidelines about maintainer script arguments and how dpkg works.
This seems to solve (or a least provide a path to the solution of)
my problems.
The only outstanding gotcha is if someone installed cern-httpd,
and then installed apache using 'dpkg --force-conflicts', but
someone who does that deserves to lose, right :-)
Sorry, and Mea-Culpa
SteveG
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