On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:39:40PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > 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.
To search all packages which are installed and have the package name 'package': COLUMNS=200 dpkg --list | grep ^ii | awk '{ print $2}' | grep ^package Or just to learn the status of one package: dpkg --list apache2 Steve -- Debian GNU/Linux System Administration http://www.debian-administration.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]