Re: command question

[Zane Dodson <zdodson@zdodson.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:39:40PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
| Hi folks,
| 
| What commands on Debian equivalent to "yum list installed package_name"
| OR "rpm -qa | grep package-name" to find out whether the package has
| been installed.
<snip>

`dpkg -l' or `dpkg --list' will list all installed packages.  You
can also pass package-name-pattern arguments.  From `dpkg --help':

    ...
    dpkg -l|--list [<pattern> ...]           list packages concisely
    ...

Also see the manual page, dpkg(8).

Best regards,

-- 
Zane Dodson