Is a specific pkg installed?

grautu · 10-20-2005, 05:54 AM

Hello!
How to know whether a certain package, say generically pkg_name (which is necessary to me) is or it is not installed? Assuming, for instance, that pkg_name should provide another program with a data base, I've run pkgtool and thereby learned, for instance, that the file /usr/doc/pkg_name/README does belong to the so called "File List". Well I did check and such a file does exist in my system: is this a reliable proof that the package pkg_name is really installed? Anyway, does it exist a best way to learn whether a certain Slackware package is installed?
Thanks!

titopoquito · 10-20-2005, 06:05 AM

Look in /var/log/packages, there is a list of all packages you installed via installpkg command.

You can also just use "pkgtool" and view a list of the installed packages as well as a list of the files that were installed with the package (it's the same as the content of the according file in /var/log/packages).

grautu · 10-20-2005, 06:35 AM

So, what I was seeing by pkgtool is not a general list of packages, but the list of precisely installed packages! Great!
Thanks a lot!