On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:56:13PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote: > If you want a quickish way of determining if a package is installed > (there's lots of ways one can do this), you can do: > > $ apt-cache policy <pkgname> | grep Installed Why not the far simpler $ dpkg -s pkgname ? -- Carl Fink carl@fink.to Ask me about I-Con 24, April 8-10, 2005 http://iconsf.org