How to check if I got some package installed?

[Leandro Melo]

Thanks.


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:23:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram
<rahulsundaram at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Rahul Sundaram
> 


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Leandro