Does anyone know of a bash script that will determine if RPM exists on a system?
 

Hello,

I am very new to bash scripting along with Linux platform and was wondering if anyone knew of a way to check for the existence of RPM on a system. Currrently I would like my script to check for the existence of RPM before performing some action. If any one could help me I would really appreciate it.

Best Regards,
-Jim

Use it like this where firefox can be whatever rpm you are looking for.
rpm -qa | grep firefox

Try the command urpmi -q it will check to see if the package is installed on your system.

That's a Mandrake thingy. :)