How can I find if a certain part of Linux is installed?

Conpen2000 · 01-07-2004, 04:34 PM

As the above states, I am having trouble finding if glibc, opengl, ect. are installed on my computer. How would I go about finding if they are installed or not? And why does every time I go to install something, some dependancy error pop up?

trickykid · 01-07-2004, 04:46 PM

If your looking for packages installed on a default install with Slackware, you can easily do a:

ls -al /var/log/packages | grep <package-name>

If they were supposedly not installed using the tgz packages that Slackware uses like source or RPM's, you won't find them in this directory.

Regards.

Conpen2000 · 01-07-2004, 04:55 PM

Thanks, it is installed. Now, to figure out how to get GLHeretic and Doom to work, heheh. Another five minutes, another google search.