Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:38:33 -0700
> "Martin Paraskevov" <ze.marto@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > rpm lets you check whether a packege has been installed.
> > is this possible to do with apt-get or some other tool as well?
> >
> > - martin
>
> dpkg -l | grep <package name>
Better:

dpkg -l <package name>

Johannes