On Wednesday 22 September 2004 08:00, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > I want to find out whether a package has been > installed on Debian. Kindly advise what command shall > I use equivalent to > > rpm -q package > OR > rpm -qa | grep package If you know the exact package name: dpkg -l package If you know it has "foo" in it: dpkg -l "*foo*" If you know it starts with "foo": dpkg -l "foo*" etc.