How to check if I got some package installed?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:49:50 -0300, Leandro Melo <ltcmelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, to check for some package I could just make
> rpm -qa|grep <desiredpacknage>
> But then I got another question.
> Sometimes I got confused by distros stuff. Please correct my sentence.
> All softwares (libraries) I have in my system are in the form of "rpm"
> because Fedora is a red hat based system, right?
> Is that way I can assume that if I got something installed in my
> system, it's installed under a rpm form, right?
> Thanks.

yes unless you installed anything from source all the stuff that comes
as part of fedora core is in rpm format

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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram