Checking if program is installed

[Sean O Sullivan]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

>I am pretty sure that I installed mapivi a little while ago, but I am
>unable to open it with the commend mapivi. Also, it does not appear in
>my menu. How can I check if it is installed on my system? A google for
>'linux check if installed' did not return relevant results. I am on
>core 3 with KDE.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Dotan Cohen
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rpm -qa | grep 'program-name'