Re: apt-get listing?
--- Carl Fink <carlf@fink.to> wrote:
> 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
See above:
"(there's lots of ways one can do this)"
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