is there a command in linux which will list names of all the applications installed on your system?

If there is anything which does something related to this also please let me know.

thank you
praveen

Listing all of the packages installed may be more useful.
On an RPM based system you could use
rpm -q --all.
You could also browse the installation gui program. Different distro's will have a different program for installing new packages or browsing installed packages. In YaST for instance, you can select the installation summary. For Mandrake linux, you can use rpmdrake.

Also, look in /usr/share/doc/packages. Many applications you installed have a subdirectory. Each one will have a short README file.

You could also write a script to list the contents of each directory in your PATH variable.

thank you for the reply,

well i am searching for the command in solaris. sorry that i forgot to mention it in my last thread.

Do u know any command in solaris which will do the same?

Moved: This thread is more suitable in Solaris and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

You can use:

you may also want to look at the contents of /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin. That is a start. Besides that, you will have commands in other locations (for instance /etc/vx/bin) if you have veritas volume manager and so forth.

You can try "/usr/bin/prodreg". It is the graphical interface for Solaris product registry.