[Ilugc] need help : how to find whether the particular packages installed or not via terminal command

  • From: mehul.n.ved@xxxxxxxxx (Mehul Ved)
  • Date: Thu Jan 7 15:34:26 2010

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Abishek Goda <goda.abishek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

how can we find , whether one package is installed in our system or
not via terminal.

dpkg -l | grep <pkg name> ??

Alternately
aptitude search <package name>
If the first column is 'i', it means the package is installed. See
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s02s02.html

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